Nicolas Chambon de Montaux

Nicolas Chambon de Montaux (also: Joseph Chambon ; born September 21, 1748 in Breuvannes-en-Bassigny , Département Haute-Marne ; † November 2, 1826 in Paris ) was Mayor of Paris between December 1792 and February 1793.

biography

Chambon was born on September 21, 1748 in Brévannes, the son of the surgeon Jean-Baptiste and his wife Marguerite Froussard. He studied in Paris at first medicine , then settled temporarily in Langres down before he finally moved to the capital. Here he quickly made a career, including as chief physician of the Salpêtrière hospital , first medic in the army, inspector of military hospitals and member of the Société royale de médicine . During that time, numerous publications were created that achieved great popularity among contemporaries:

• Des maladies des femmes
• Des maladies des filles
• The maladies de la grossesse
• Observationes clinicæ
• Traité de la fièvre maligne
• Moyens de rendre les hôpitaux plus utiles à la nation

Increasingly, and especially from 1789, he was also involved in politics. For example, when the French Revolution broke out , Chambon was appointed commissioner for the constitutional priests in Paris and was active in the section of Saint-Honoré. At the end of 1790 he was the capital's tax administrator ( administrateur des impositions et des finances ). Incidentally, he was also the doctor of Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754–1793). As a result, Chambon joined the Jacobin Club and was after some political work on December 1, 1792 as the successor of the discredited Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756-1794) new mayor of Paris. In this position he was quickly criticized, especially after he protested against the decree of December 16, 1792, which banished members of the royal family who had not yet been imprisoned from France. On February 4, 1793, Chambon finally resigned from all his offices. The direct cause for this were protests that had been provoked by a ban on the play “ L'Ami du Peuple ” (“The People's Friend”).

Chambon withdrew to Blois . He did not return to Paris until 1804 and died there on November 2, 1826.

literature

• M. Prevost: Chambon de Montaux , in: ders. / Roman d'Amat (ed.): Dictionaire de Biographie Française , vol. 8, Librairie Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1959, col. 257