Nicolas Frochot

Nicolas Thérèse Benoît Frochot (born March 20, 1761 in Dijon , Département Côte-d'Or , † July 29, 1828 in Rouvres-sur-Aube , Département Haute-Marne ) was a French administrator and politician .

Life

Frochot came from a middle-class family, his father was the lawyer Jean Étienne Frochot (1720–1795), his mother Antoinette Henriette Charpy (1730–1808).

In 1785 Frochot married Denise (1757-1832), a daughter of the royal notary Claude Petit, at the age of 24. His son Étienne Frochot (1798-1828) later became a stockbroker and also succeeded in politics. Supported by his father-in-law, Frochot was appointed to the États généraux as a deputy with effect from March 25, 1789, despite the unstable political situation . There he soon worked with Honoré de Mirabeau on a new constitution .

During the revolution , Frochot was employed in the administration of the Côte-d'Or department when the Welfare Committee arrested and imprisoned him during the reign of terror . Maximilien de Robespierre campaigned personally for Frochot's dismissal and from December 1799 he got his previous job back.

During this time, Frochot also became a follower of Napoleon Bonaparte . When Napoleon on 9 November 1799, his coup for first consul of the new French Republic proclaimed, he was an enthusiastic supporter in Frochot. For this, Frochot was promoted to Prefect of the Seine-et-Paris department in March 1800 . As such, he carried out many reforms. He had prisons such as Conciergerie , Prison de l'Abbaye or the Saint-Lazare prison rebuilt and restructured. Under his direction, hospitals such as the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts , Val-de-Grâce and the Hôpital Saint-Louis were modernized and he had the Père Lachaise and Montmartre cemeteries enlarged and redesigned. On the outskirts of Paris he had the Passy and Montparnasse cemeteries rebuilt with generous planning . In addition to many projects on public roads and buildings, home education in the orphanages was also important to him.

When General Claude François de Malet in Paris against Napoleon on October 23, 1812 coup , was Frochot all his offices and sat down to Château d'ETUF (Rouvres-sur-Aube) to rest. During Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days, Frochot worked as prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhône department . During the restoration , Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc, MP , succeeded him in the introuvable chambre .

Frochot died at the age of 67 in Rouvres-sur-Aube and found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Division 37).

Honors

• Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
• Comte d'Empire
• Conseiller d'état honoraire
• The rue Frochot , a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, was named in his honor
• The Avenue Frochot , a private street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, was named in his honor

literature

• Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, Vol. 3: Fes-Lav . Slatkine, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 . (unchanged reprint Paris 1889/92)
• Louis Passy: Frochot, prefet de la Seine. Histoire administrative (1789-1815) . 2nd Edition. A. Hérissey, Paris 1874.

Web links

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