Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau
Nicolas-Louis François, comte de Neufchâteau (born April 17, 1750 in Saffais near Nancy in Lorraine , † January 10, 1828 in Paris ) was a French statesman and poet .
François de Neufchâteau was the son of a teacher, and at the age of fourteen published a collection of poems entitled Pièces fugitives (1766), which Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau praised. He later published Poésies diverses de deux amis (1768).
He studied law in Paris. From 1782 to 1785 he was General Procurator in Haiti .
As a supporter of the French Revolution , he was President of the French National Assembly from December 26, 1791 to January 8, 1792 . The moderate attitudes expressed in his drama Paméla, ou la vertu récompensée brought him to prison up to the 9th Thermidor .
After his liberation, he became a judge at the tribunal de cassation on January 3, 1795 , then commissioner of the directorate in the Vosges department and from July 15, 1797 to September 13, 1797 Minister of the Interior . After the coup of 18 fructidor (4 September 1797) of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot stop to the Board of Directors elected, he again had to withdraw its strict constitutional principles for the 1798th On June 17, 1798 he was again Minister of the Interior, losing this post before the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire VIII on June 22, 1799. In 1801 he became secretary and in 1804 president of the Senate .
In 1803 he became a member of the Académie française .
Napoléon Bonaparte gave him the senatorium in Dijon and, after he ennobled him Comte in 1804, that of Brussels in 1806 .
Works (selection)
- Pièces fugitives (1766)
- Poésies diverses de deux amis (1768)
- Discours sur la manière de lire les vers (Par. 1775)
- Nouveaux contes moraux en vers (1781)
- Anthology morale (1784)
- Les lectures du citoyen (1798)
- Fables et contes en vers (1814)
- Esprit du grand Corneille (1819)
Web links
- Literature by and about Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre Bénézech |
Minister of the Interior of France July 15, 1797 - September 13, 1797 |
François Sébastien Letourneux |
| François Sébastien Letourneux |
Minister of the Interior of France June 17, 1798 - June 22, 1799 |
Nicolas Marie Quinette |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saffais |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1828 |
| Place of death | Paris |