Nicolas-Thérèse Vallet de Salignac

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Nicolas-Thérèse Vallet de Salignac (born March 16, 1732 in Marennes , † October 30, 1812 in Royan ) was a French politician.

Live and act

He was the son of the financier Pierre Vallet de Salignac († 1760). His father, Pierre Vallet Salignac, made a fortune trading salt from the area around the city of Marennes. His mother was the eldest sister of Sophie Volland named Marie-Jeanne Elizabeth Volland (* 1715)

Nicolas-Thérèse Vallet acquired land in Mons on July 5, 1736 , and had the associated castle, Château de Mons (Charente-Maritime) reconstructed. It was an adviser to the French king, Louis XV. , an écuyer, seigneur de Mons en Royan, de la Petite Forêt et autres lieux .

On February 4, 1790 he took over the mayor's office of Royan. But at the end of November 1790, he resigned his post as mayor to be elected as the police officer of Royan . He held this position until 1792. He survived the reign of terror , la Terreur .

He could keep his fortune and his possessions. The son-in-law of his daughter Angélique Salignac follows him to the mayor's office of Royan.

His sister was Mélanie de Salignac , who had been blind since she was two, whose story of suffering had an influence on Denis Diderot's writing Letter about the Blind for Use by the Sighted (1749).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family genealogy
  2. ↑ Zina Weygand Les aveugles dans la société française: Du Moyen Âge au siècle de ... 2003 - p. 87 "Mélanie de Salignac: Mélanie de Salignac , that Diderot rencontra à plusieurs reprises" pendant un commerce d'intimité qui a commencé avec elle et avec sa famille en 1760 »74, mourut en 1766, à l'âge de vingt-deux ans"
  3. ↑ Bulletin municipal de Royan, n ° 72 mars 2002, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Salignac, Nicolas-Thérèse Vallet de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Marennes (Charente-Maritime)
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1812
Place of death Royan