Frédéric Vaillant

Frédéric Vaillant

Frédéric Vaillant (born January 12, 1801 in Friborg ; † June 11, 1880 ibid) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Life

Vaillant was Catholic and comes from a family from Mâcon (France), Avry-sur-Matran (1803) and Freiburg (1806). His parents were the French officer Denis-Dominique Vaillant (1768–1842) and Anne-Marie nee. Buman, from a family of the privileged citizens of the city ​​of Freiburg . Denis-Dominique Vaillant was a grenadier captain in the 100th regiment of the French army, which invaded Switzerland in 1798. As the commandant of Freiburg (1799-1802), he tried to make the occupation bearable for the residents. Much appreciated by the city authorities, he was given honorary citizenship of the canton's capital and citizenship of Freiburg (June 17, 1803). His son Frédéric remained unmarried.

Vaillant attended primary school in Freiburg until 1810 and then in Lyon (1810-1812), where he also graduated from grammar school (1812-1818). After studying law, he became a lawyer at the royal court. In 1834 he returned to Freiburg . He became a member of the Criminal Legislation Commission, the Education Council and the Police Council. On December 31, 1835 he became state treasurer. Elected to the Council of State on December 23, 1837, he was a member until 1847. His areas of activity included, in particular, finance, education, the post office and civil law. He was also President of the Chamber of Commerce. From 1840 to 1847 he was a councilor. As the embodiment of the French restoration under Louis XVIII. and Charles X. Vaillant was a conservative who advocated the Sonderbund . From 1847 to 1856 he had to leave Freiburg and lived in Moldova , a Turkish protectorate populated by Romanians, and in Bern .

In December 1856 Vaillant returned to Freiburg. On November 20, 1857 he was elected with 40 of 64 votes as the successor to Johann Anton Engelhard in the State Council, in which he headed the Justice Directorate (1857–1862) and the Justice and Culture Directorate (1862–1878). Alternating with Charles Weck and Louis de Weck-Reynold , he presided over the government in 1860, 1863, 1865, 1868, 1870, 1873 and 1875. From 1859 to 1880 he was the Grand Councilor of the Saane district . Under him, the new Criminal Law (1868), the Law on Notaries (1869), the Law on the Organization of Justice (1873), the Law on Public Prosecutor's Office (1873) and the Law on Civil Status (1875) came into force. Kind, honest and competent, Vaillant was one of the extreme conservatives. Since his health deteriorated, he resigned from the State Council on May 7, 1878 at the advanced age of 78 and died in Freiburg on June 1, 1880 .

literature

• Georges Andrey , John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand et Nicolas Gex: The Freiburg Council of State: 1848–2011. History, organization, members . Editions La Sarine, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-2-88355-153-4 .

Web links

• Jean-Pierre Dorand / BE: Vaillant, Frédéric. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .