Pierre-Louis Roederer

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Pierre-Louis Roederer , contemporary depiction by Jean Urbain Guérin, etching by Franz Gabriel Fiessinger
The signing of the Treaty of Mortefontaine on September 30, 1800 , lithograph by Victor Adam
Roederer's tomb in the Père-Lachaise cemetery

Pierre-Louis Roederer , (born February 15, 1754 in Metz , according to other information in Strasbourg , † December 17, 1835 in Bursard , Orne ), count (since December 21, 1808), was a French statesman and publicist, adviser Napoleon Bonapartes , Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor .

origin

His parents were Pierre Louis Roederer (1711–1789) and Marguerite Gravelotte du Saulcy (1717–1768).

Life

Before the French Revolution , Roederer was a lawyer and advisor to the parliament in Metz . Politically, he was involved in the Society of Thirty . After the General Estates were convened under Louis XVI. in October 1789 he became a member of the constituent national assembly as a member of the third estate . Here he belonged to the group of Jacobins , whose president he even became in August 1791, but was also a member of the club further to the right from 1789 . However, membership in several political groups was common at the time. On August 10, 1792, he helped the royal family escape into the National Assembly building during the Tuileries Tower . During the revolution he worked as a journalist. In 1796, Professor of Political Economy in Paris, Roederer was a member of the French delegation in 1800 that ended the quasi-war with the United States by signing the Treaty of Mortefontaine . In 1806, Roederer became King Joseph's Minister of Finance in the Kingdom of Naples and raised to the rank of count. From September 24, 1810 to November 1813 he was the successor of Michel Gaudin (August 1808 to December 31, 1808) and Hugues-Bernard Maret (January 1, 1809 to September 23, 1810), who provided their office only as a secondary task had - Minister and State Secretary for the Grand Duchy of Berg based in Paris. He was also a senator in the French National Assembly . Roederer was also a professor of economics and a newspaper publisher in Paris. Since 1803 he was a member of the Académie française . In 1816 he was expelled from it.

Düsseldorf recalls it with the flattering paraphrase of the term Little Paris ( Petit Paris , 1811).

family

On October 28, 1777 married Roederer in Frankfurt Eve Régine Louise Walburge Guaita († 3 November 1833), the daughter of the Frankfurt banker Anton Maria Guaita , which earned a handsome dowry. The couple had several children:

  • Pierre-Louis (1780–1835) ⚭ 1822 Blanche Joséphine Tircuy de Corcelle (1797–1884)
  • Antoine Marie (1782–1865), politician ⚭ 1809 Catherine Adélaïde Berthier (1792–1874)
  • Françoise Marthe (1783–1823) ⚭ 1822 Gaspard Gourgaud (1783–1852)

Works

  • Œuvres complètes . 1853–59 (8 volumes)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johan Menichetti: Pierre-Louis Roederer: la science sociale au Conseil d'État . Article (in French) from Napoleonica. La Revue 2013/1, No. 16, accessed on the cairn.info portal on September 1, 2013
  2. ↑ Axel Kolodiej: Departments, Arrondissements, Cantons and Marien - The middle and lower administrative structures of the Grand Duchy of Berg using the example of Barmen . ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file in the portal bgv-wuppertal.de (Bergischer Geschichtsverein), p. 6, accessed on October 20, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-wuppertal.de
  3. ↑ Bettina Severin-Barbouti: French government policy and modernization. Administrative and constitutional reforms in the Grand Duchy of Berg (1806–1813) . Munich 2008, pp. 100-109
  4. ^ Law Bulletin of the Grand Duchy of Berg: Appointment decree of September 24, 1810 ( Düsseldorf State Library )
  5. ^ Mahmoud Kandil: Social protest against the Napoleonic system of rule in the Grand Duchy of Berg 1808–1813 . Document from March 2000 in the fes.de portal of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, accessed on September 1, 2013
  6. ↑ From the capital of a Grand Duchy to an industrial city , article from the City Archives of the State Capital Düsseldorf in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on December 25, 2012
  7. ↑ Kenneth Margerison: P.-L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice During the French Revolution . The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1983, p. 6

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personal data
SURNAME Roederer, Pierre-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French statesman and publicist, adviser to Napoleon Bonaparte, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz or Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1835
Place of death Bursard , Orne department