Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu
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Félix Julien Jean Bigot de Préameneu (French pronunciation: Napoleon at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Biography
Bigot de Préameneu was a lawyer for the Parlement of Rennes, then to the Parlement of Paris before the revolution, and was also a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1791.
He professed moderate opinions and was among the defenders of
Commune, becoming a judge under the National Constituent Assembly and the Directory
.
Under the
Napoleon I of France
in 1800.
In 1803, he was elected to the
Minister of Public Worship. He was made a count of the empire on 24 April 1808, and became a peer of France during the Hundred Days
.
He married Eulalie Marie Renée Barbier, daughter of Aimé Francois Barbier and Jeanne Dufour.
Bigot lost all his responsibilities at the beginning of the second Restoration. He died on 31 July 1825 in Paris and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery (14th division).
He is briefly mentioned in the
Les Miserables as the recipient of an angry letter regarding Bishop Myriel.[1]
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Portrait of Bigot de Préameneu
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Tomb of Félix Julien Jean Bigot de Préameneu in Père Lachaise Cemetery
References
- ^ Hugo, Victor (1862). Les Miserables. Translated 2013. Penguin Classics. p. 10.
- Biography of Félix Julien Jean Bigot de Préameneu on the Napoleon & Empire website (in English).
- Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu (1747-1825) Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in English)