Joseph Fiévée

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Joseph Fiévée

Joseph Fiévée (born April 9, 1767 in Paris , † May 9, 1839 ibid) was a French journalist, writer and member of parliament.

Life

Fiévée was the son of a landlord and the brother-in-law of the journalist Charles Frédéric Perlet (1759-1828).

During the revolution and the reign of terror , Fiévée was a supporter of the royalists and thus part of François Xavier de Montesquiou-Fézensac . It was during this time that Fiévée wrote his novel La dot de Suzette (Eng. The dowry of Suzette ), which was a great literary success.

He married in 1790, but his wife died giving birth to their first child. At the end of the same year Fiévée met the writer Michel Théodore Leclercq , with whom he soon moved in. Both raised Fiévée's son together.

Through his acquaintance with the writer Jean-Louis Aubert , Fiévée became editor of the Gazette de France in 1800 . In 1803 Fiévée was arrested on the orders of Joseph Fouché and imprisoned in the Paris Temple . Only when Pierre-Louis Roederer , an advisor to Napoleon , intervened with Fouché, Fiévée was released.

Between 1804 and 1807 Fiévée was editor-in-chief of the Journal des débats . At Napoleon's request, Fiévée was raised to the nobility in 1810 and given the title “maître des requêtes”. Napoleon appointed him a member of the Conseil d'État and for three years he received the post of prefect of the Nièvre department . When Fiévée arrived in Nevers with his son and Leclercq , a scandal broke out.

Four weeks after his 72nd birthday, Joseph Fiévée died on May 9, 1839 in Paris and found his final resting place next to Leclercq in the Père Lachaise cemetery .

Honors

Works (selection)

prose

  • Six nouvelles . Perlet, Paris 1803 (2 vols.)
  • Suschen trousseau or story of the woman from Seneterre (La dot de Suzette, ou mémoires de Mde de Senneterre, 1799). Wilmanns Verlag, Bremen 1799.

Plays

  • Les riqueurs du cloitre. Comédie en two actes, en prosé mêlée d'ariettes . Édition de Boubers, Paris 1793.
  • La maison à vendre . Paris 1789.
  • Le badinage dangereux . Paris 1789.

Non-fiction

  • Nouvelle correspondance politique et administrative . Sautelet, Paris 1828.

Work edition

literature

  • Joseph Fiévée . In: Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (eds.): Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie . Hachette, Paris 1878.
  • Frédéric Barbier: Livre et révolution. Colloque organisé par l'institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine . Amateurs de Livres, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-905053-47-X .
  • Auguste Cavalier: Fiévée. Correspondant intiome de Napoleon 1er - 1767-1839 . Les Contemporains, Paris 1902.
  • Jean-Clément Martin: La contre-révolution en Europe, XVIIIe - XIXe siècle. Réalités, politiques et sociales, résonances culturelles et idéologiques . Presses universitaires, Rennes 2001, ISBN 2-86847-560-4 .
  • Jeremy D. Popkin: Conservatism under Napoleon. The political writings of Joseph Fiévée . In: History of European Ideas , Vol. 5 (1984), Issue 4, pp. 385-400, ISSN  0191-6599 .
  • Guy Thuillier: Témoins de l'administration. De Saint-Just à Marx (L'Administration nouvelle). Berger-Levrault, Paris 1967.
  • Jean Tulard : Conseiller secret de Napoléon (Les inconnus de l'histoire). Fayard, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-213-01662-3 .
  • Jean Tulard: Figures d'Émpire. Murat, Fouché, Joseph Fiévée (Les indispensables de l'histoire). Fayard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-213-62714-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contents: Vol. 1: La jalousie. L'égoïsme. L'innocence ; Vol. 2: Le divorce. Les faux révolutionnaires. L'heroïsme des femmes .
  2. ↑ The music for this was composed by Henri Montan Berton (1767–1844).
personal data
SURNAME Fiévée, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer and MP
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1839
Place of death Paris