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Charles Cochon Lapparent (24 January 1750 – 17 July 1825) was a French politician[1] and Minister of Police.[2]
Charles Cochon de Lapparent | |
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| Minister of Police | |
| In office 3 April 1796 – 16 July 1797 | |
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| Born | 24 January 1750 |
| Died | 17 July 1825 (aged 75) |
Biography
editHe was born 24 January 1750 in Champdeniers-Saint-Denis.
He was born into a bourgeois family that was formerly Protestant, a religion they were required to recant. Lapparent was elected deputy of the Third Estate, and he held important functions in the National Convention, in the armies of the Republic and the committee of public health. On 9 Thermidor, he participated in the fall of Robespierre. During a meeting of the French Directory he was appointed minister of police. However, he was accused of being royalist and deported. During the time of the Consulate and the First French Empire, he held important posts, but in 1815 he was forced to leave France, being allowed to return to Poitiers after a year of exile.
He died 17 July 1825 in Poitiers.
References
edit- ↑ Pont, Bessie Gardner Du (1923). Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence. University of Delaware Press. p. 336.
- ↑ Dawson, Philip (1972). Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789–1795. Harvard University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-674-71960-6.