Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

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Prefect Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

Achille Charles Stanislas Le Tonnelier, comte de Breteuil (born March 29, 1781 in Paris , † June 3, 1864 ibid) was a French politician and diplomat.

Life

Achille, who came from the French noble family Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, worked after studying at the École polytechnique in the government debt management of the First Empire in “ Mayence ” (Mainz). As a trained diplomat, Achille Le Tonnelier was the French legation secretary in Stuttgart . He was also an examiner at the Conseil d'État . During and after the Fifth Coalition War against the Austrian Empire, which began on April 9, 1809 , he was the administrator of first Styria , Carinthia and then Lower Carniola. He was promoted to Baron of the Empire on March 9, 1810 . He was prefect of the Nièvre département from November 1810 to March 1813, prefect of the estuaries of the Elbe in 1813, maître des requêtes (lecturing state council) at the Conseil d'État (1815), prefect of the French Guiana département from 1815 to 1820, prefect of the département Sarthe from 1820 to 1822 and prefect of the Gironde departments from 1822 to 1823. In 1824 he was promoted to Peer of France . On January 26, 1852, he was appointed Senator of the Second Empire . Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil died on June 3, 1864 in Paris.

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  • Dictionnaire de Biographie Française , Paris, 1932–2005
  • Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil in: Robert & Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français , 1889.