Jean Vatout

Jean Vatout (born May 26, 1791 in Villefranche-sur-Saône , today's Département Rhône , † November 3, 1848 in Esher , Surrey ) was a French historian , politician and writer .

Live and act

Vatout began his career as secretary to the politician François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas . During the reign of the Hundred Days , Vatout was appointed sub-prefect of Libourne ( Gironde department ) in 1814 . He later worked in the same position in Semur-en-Auxois ( Département Côte-d'Or ).

Vatout was among the first to support Alexandre Dumas .

After several attempts, the Académie française appointed Vatout to succeed the late writer Pierre-Simon Ballanche ( Fauteuil 4 ) on January 6, 1848 . He was followed in 1849 by the politician Alexis de Guignard in this place.

When the last French king, Louis-Philippe , was forced to abdicate during the February Revolution in 1848 , Vatout accompanied him into exile in Esher in Surrey in the spring of the same year . Queen Victoria had made the country estate Claremont House available to Louis Philippe and his family there as a residence. Sickly, Vatout poisoned himself on the lead water pipes at Claremont House. He died of it on November 3, 1848 at the age of 57 and found his final resting place in Esher.

Works (selection)

Fiction

• La conspiration de Cellamare . Roman, 1832.
• L'idée fixe. Novel . 1830.
• La nièce d'un roi . 1824.

Non-fiction

• Le château d'Eu . 1844.
• Les gouvernements représentatifs au congrès de Opava . 1821.
• Stanislas de Girardin . 1827.

literature

• Paul Mesnard: Histoire de l'académie française depuis sa fondation jusqu'en 1830 . Charpentier, Paris 1857.

Web links

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Literature by and about Jean Vatout in the catalog of the German National Library