Jean Marie Thérèse Doazan

Jean Marie Thérèse Doazan also Jules Doazan (born January 11, 1774 in Bordeaux , † January 30, 1839 in Paris ) was the last prefect of the Department de Rhin-et-Moselle from 1810 to 1814 .

prefect

A unique monument in Koblenz, the Kastorbrunnen

After Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia was unexpectedly transferred to Strasbourg on March 1, 1810 , the post of Prefect of the Department de Rhin-et-Moselle in Koblenz remained vacant for seven months. On November 11, 1810, Doazan was appointed to this office. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and deeply devoted to Napoleon . For this reason he wanted to erect a monument to him in honor of the French nation. In 1812 he left before Kastorkirche a classical fountain of basalt blocks building whose (also orthographic wrong) French inscription on the successful Russian campaign should remember Napoleon. On New Year's Eve of 1814, however, the predominantly Russian army corps under General Saint-Priest , which formed the right wing of Blücher's Silesian Army , crossed the Rhine across the width from Neuwied to the mouth of the Lahn, with a focus on Koblenz. The French had evacuated the city shortly before and left it to the Russians without a fight. Their commander, however, showed humor and had neither Doazan's fountain nor the first inscription removed, but a second placed under it. It is:

"Vu et approuvé par nous commandant / russe de la ville de Coblentz / le 1er janvier 1814."

(German: Seen and approved by us, Russian commander of the city of Koblenz, on January 1st, 1814.)

With these events, the French rule on the left bank of the Rhine ended and the department was dissolved. In the Congress of Vienna the area was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Doazan became Prefect of the Jura Department for a short time during Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days .

literature

• Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH, Ed .: Bernd Weber, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005 (2nd revised and expanded edition), p. 132.