Charles Frédéric Perlet

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Charles Frédéric Perlet (born January 26, 1759 in Geneva ; † November 29, 1828 there ) was a Swiss watchmaker , bookseller and journalist .

Life

Perlet was Joseph Fiévée's brother-in-law and through him came into contact with the ideas of the French Revolution . Perlet came to Paris in 1783 with his compatriot Louis Fauche-Borel , a bookseller . There he supported Fauche-Borel and worked for him as a printer.

Through this work he soon made the acquaintance of Louis-François Jauffret and Jean-Jacques Lenoir-Laroche . Committed to the royalist side, he also supported the journal Perlet , which he founded . As a supporter of the king, he was arrested on the occasion of the coup d'état of September 4, 1797 and deported to French Guiana ( Îles du Salut ).

After the coup d'état of November 9, 1799 , Perlet was pardoned and allowed to return to France. Under the consulate he ran a small bookshop in Paris. During the First Empire , Perlet gave up this again and worked with his compatriot Pierre-Hugues Veyrat for the Paris police.

Charles Frédéric Perlet died at the age of 69 in Geneva, where he found his final resting place.

literature

  • Anonymous: Jugement rendu contre Perlet, ancient journmaliste, le 24 may 1816 par le tribunal de police correctionelle, 6e chambre, sous la présidence de M. Poly, dans la affaire de Fauche-Bord . Paris 1816.
  • E. Ducoudray: Perlet, Charles-Frédéric . In: Albert Soubol u. a .: Dictionnaire historique de la révolution française . PUF, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-13-042522-4 . Pp. 834-835.
  • Jacques Godechot: The "Journal de Perlet" pendant la réaction thermidorienne . In: Revue du Nord , Vol. 76 (1984), No. 261/262, pp. 723-732.
  • Louis Léon Gosselin: L'affaire Perlet. Drames policiers . 12th edition Perrin, Paris 1930.
  • Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard, Alfred Fierro (eds.): Histoire et dictionnaire de la révolution française 1789–1799. (Collection Bouquins). 3rd edition Laffont, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-221-08850-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LL Gosselin published this work under his pseudonym G. Lenôtre .
personal data
SURNAME Perlet, Charles Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss watchmaker, bookseller and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1828
Place of death Geneva