Antoine de Sartine
Antoine Raymond Juan Gualbert Gabriel de Sartine , Comte d'Alby, (born July 12, 1729 in Barcelona , † September 7, 1801 in Tarragona ) was a French politician who served as the Police Prefect of Paris ( Lieutenant général de police ) and from 1759 to 1774 then was Minister of the Navy.
Live and act
His father was the Lyon- born financier Antoine Sartine (1681–1744). The career of his son in the Paris police administration of the Ancien Régime earned the originally bourgeois Sartine the title of nobility.
Sartine was the organizer of a close-knit network of spies to combat more revolutionary activities at the time of the Enlightenment. In 1759 he was appointed police prefect of Paris and from 1763 was head of the censorship authority. From 1774 to 1780 he was State Secretary in the Navy Ministry .
Sartine emigrated to Spain at the beginning of the revolution .
Works
- Antoine de Sartine: Représentations à Monsieur le Lieutenant Général de Police de Paris sur les courtisanes à la mode et les demoiselles du bon ton . Paris 1762. (New edition as microfiche, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1994–1998, ISBN 3-487-25898-6 )
literature
- Jacques Michel: Du Paris de Louis XV à la marine de Louis XVI: l'œuvre de Monsieur de Sartine . Éditions de l'Érudit, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-86816-001-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sartine, Antoine de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Antoine Raymond Juan Gualbert Gabriel de Sartine, Comte d'Alby |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Minister of Police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1729 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1801 |
| Place of death | Tarragona |