Marie Jean François Philibert Lecarlier

Lecarlier

Marie Jean François Philibert Lecarlier d'Ardon (born November 20, 1752 in Laon , † August 22, 1799 in Paris ) was a French politician and 1798 French commissioner in the Helvetic Republic .

Lecarlier was royal secretary and secretary to the mayor of Laon and one of the largest landowners in the Vermandois . Nevertheless, the Vermandois was elected to the French General Estates for the Third Estate. There he represented a reform-friendly line and was elected Secretary of the National Assembly in June 1791 and remained its member until November 30, 1791. Later he was a member of the Convention for the Aisne department from November 6, 1792 to October 26, 1795 and represented the department also on the Council of Five Hundred between October 26th and November 2nd, 1795. Since he had been elected against his will, he resigned after six days. On April 12, 1798, he was elected to the Council of Elders and named Plenipotentiary Commissioner for the French Army in Switzerland. After the conquest of Switzerland he was entrusted with the organization of the Helvetic Republic. After serving only a short time as French police minister on November 1, 1798, he went to Belgium as general commissioner. In March 1799 he was re-elected to the council of elders for the department of Aisne before he died in the autumn of the same year.

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• Biography in the French dictionnaire des députés (1789–1889) (PDF; 1.52 MB)