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Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau
b. 17 Apr 1750, Saffais, Meurthe
d. 10 Jan 1828, Paris |
Title: |
Membre du Directoire exécutif de la République française (Member of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) |
Term: |
10 Sep 1797 - 19 May 1798 |
Chronology: |
8 Sep 1797, ten candidates for election of a member of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) nominated by the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) and the list passed to the Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients) [1, pp. 351-352] |
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9 Sep 1797, elected and proclaimed member of the Executive Directory by the Council of Ancients, session of the Council, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1, p. 355] [2] [3] |
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10 Sep 1797, installed as a member of the Directory, meeting of the Executive Directory, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris [1, p. 387] [4, vol. 2, pp. 231-232] |
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9 May 1798, chosen to be replaced by lot, meeting of the Executive Directory, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris [5] |
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19 May 1798, functions as a member of the Executive Directory expired according to the Law of 15 ventôse, Year VI |
Names/titles: |
Original surname: François (de Neufchâteau added in c. 1765; ratified by the Parlement of Nancy in 1777); comte François de Neufchâteau, comte de l'Empire (count François de Neufchâteau, count of the Empire [from 26 Apr 1808] |
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Président de l'Assemblée nationale (President of the National Assembly) (26 Dec 1791 - 8 Jan 1792) [see details] |
Biography: |
Son of a provincial teacher; was a gifted child, whose first collection of poems was published when he was fifteen; after completing legal studies at Reims, worked as lawyer in the Parlement of Paris; sent to Saint-Domingue (Haiti), where served as prosecutor (1783-1787); elected to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1791-1792) as a representative of the département of Vosges; appointed a member of the legislative committee; served as vice president (20 Dec 1791 - 26 Dec 1791) and president (26 Dec 1791 - 8 Jan 1792) of the National Assembly; elected to the Convention nationale (National Convention), but refused to sit; declined his appointment (6 Oct 1792) as justice minister; imprisoned (3 Sep 1793) for performance of his comedy, Paméla, considered to be targeted against the Jacobin-dominated Convention; released after the coup of 9 Thermidor (27 Jul 1794); named a member of the Tribunal of Appeals (1795) and later as a commissar of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) in Vosges (1796); served as interior minister (16 Jul 1797 - 14 Sep 1797); elected (9 Sep 1797) member of the Executive Directory to replace Lazare Carnot; selected to be replaced (9 May 1798) according to the constitutional provisions; again took the portfolio of interior minister (17 Jun 1798 - 22 Jun 1799); during the Consulate, was named a member of the Sénat conservateur (25 Dec 1799); after the fall of the Empire, did not take active part in politics and devoted himself to agricultural study.
Biography source: [6] |
Elections: |
Candidate |
Vote |
Conseil des
Cinq-Cents
(8 Sep 1797) |
Conseil des
Anciens
(9 Sep 1797) |
Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau |
205 |
111 |
André Masséna |
194 |
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Pierre-François-Charles Augereau |
192 |
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Dominique-Joseph Garat |
190 |
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Louis-Jérôme Gohier |
189 |
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Charles Delacroix de Contaut |
183 |
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Gaspard Monge |
179 |
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Marie-Jean-François-Philibert Lecarlier d'Ardon |
178 |
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Manuel-Louis-Jean-Augustin Ernouf |
175 |
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Pierre-Louis Ginguené |
155 |
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total votes cast/absolute majority |
239/120 |
146/74 |
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Election result source: [1, pp. 351-352]
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[1] |
Corps législatif: Procès-verbal des séances du Conseil des Anciens (Paris: Imprimerie nationale), Fructidor, an V. |
[2] |
Bulletin des lois de la République, No. 143, pp. 14-15. |
[3] |
Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, N° 359, 29 fructidor, l'an 5 de la République Française une et indivisible (vendredi 15 septembre 1797, vieux stile), p. 1448. |
[4] |
Les procès-verbaux du Directoire exécutif, an V - an VIII. Inventaire des registres des delibérations et des minutes des arrêtés, lettres et actes du Directoire faisant suite au Recueil des actes du Directoire exécutif d'Antonin Debidour, ed. by Pierre-Dominique Cheynet (Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2000-). |
[5] |
Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 232, 22 floréal an VI. |
[6] |
Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, |
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Image: engraving by Laugier (1812) after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1798). |