Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir

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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir

Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir (born December 10, 1732 in Paris , † November 17, 1807 in Crosne ) was a French police prefect , lieutenant-général de police and royal librarian, garde de la bibliothèque du roi .

Live and act

Lenoir was the son of Jean-Charles-Joseph Lenoir (1687-1754) his character lieutenant civil au Châtelet and his wife Marie-Anne Lenoir de Cindré (* 1708) with whom he had been married since 1728.

Lenoir began his career in court and in 1752 was Conseiller at Châtelet in Paris. Then he was made lieutenant particulier in 1754 and lieutenant, lieutenant criminel in 1759 at the same institution. He was later appointed maître des requêtes in 1765 and finally in 1768 President of the Grand Conseil , président au Grand Conseil .

He married his first wife on April 17, 1757, née Marie Nicole Denis († 1762) in Paris. A daughter Anne Pauline emerged from this connection. Later on February 23, 1796, he remarried the née Sophie Elisabeth Huguenin († 1803).

When his predecessor Antoine de Sartine gave up the duties of a police officer in 1774 , Lenoir was appointed police lieutenant in the same year, a position which he took up again after a one-year break in 1776 and 1785. His successors were in 1775 Joseph d'Albert y Cornella (1721-1790) and in 1785 Louis Thiroux de Crosne (1736-1794). This was also thanks to the patronage of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas and Charles Alexandre de Calonne .

During his time as lieutenant-général de police , he emerged as a staunch opponent of the economic policy ideas of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot . Above all, he criticized the liberalization of the grain trade as being harmful to the people of Paris. Turgot initially wanted to enforce a free grain trade, but his decree, signed on September 13, 1774, met with energetic opposition from the conseil du roi .

During the troubled times of the French Revolution in 1792, he lived temporarily in Switzerland and in the Austrian capital Vienna . After the end of the reign of terror , la terreur and consolidation of the new French political system , he returned to France and lived in Crosne ( Essonne ) near Paris. He had a pension of 4,000 francs a year.

Works (selection)

  • Details on quelques établissements de la ville de Paris. demandé par sa majesté impériale, la rein de Hongrie, Paris 1780

literature

  • Jean-Louis Carra: L'an 1787. Précis de l'administration de la bibliothèque du Roi, sous M. Lenoir. 1788.
  • Pierre Louis Manuel: La Police de Paris dévoilée, avec Gravure et Tableau. 2 volumes, Garnery, Paris 1791
  • Richard Mowery Andrews: Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735–1789: The System of Criminal Justice. Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-36169-9 , p. 127

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extensive biography in French
  2. ↑ pastellists.com Biographical Data
  3. ↑ geneanet.org
  4. ^ Angela Taeger: Ludwig XVI. (1754–1793): King of France. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018475-X , p. 61
  5. ^ The franc was introduced as the national currency of France on April 7, 1795 as the successor to the livre .
personal data
SURNAME Lenoir, Jean-Charles-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Noir, Jean Charles Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French police lieutenant and royal librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1807
Place of death Crosne , Essonne department