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]

References

  1. ^ Hugo, Victor (1862). Les Miserables. Translated 2013. Penguin Classics. p. 10.