Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély

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Portrait of Michel Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély by François Gérard (1808).

Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (3 December 1761, Saint-Fargeau – 11 March 1819, Paris) was a French politician.

Biography

Early activities

He was a

Estates-General by the Third Estate in the sénéchaussée of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.[1]

His eloquence made him a prominent figure in the

Honoré Mirabeau, and settled the dispute about the ashes of Voltaire by decreeing that they belonged to the nation.[1]

Conflict with radicals

The moderation shown by the measures he proposed at the time of King

execution, and by the articles he published in the Journal de Paris and the Ami des Patriotes, marked him out for the hostility of the radical parties.[1]

He was arrested after the revolution of 10 August, but succeeded in escaping, and during the Thermidorian Reaction which followed the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély was appointed administrator of the military hospitals in Paris. His powers of organization brought him to Napoleon's notice.

He accompanied Napoleon during the

18 Brumaire Coup (9 November 1799).[1]

Empire and later life

Under the

Académie française, procureur général of the high court, and was created Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély in 1808.[4]

He was dismissed on the first Bourbon Restoration, but resumed his posts during the Hundred Days, and, after the battle of Waterloo, persuaded the Emperor Napoleon to abdicate. He was exiled by the government of the Second Restoration, but subsequently obtained leave to return to France. He died on the day of his return to Paris. His supposed memoirs, Les Souvenirs du Comte Regnault de St Jean d'Angély (Paris, 1817), are spurious.[5]

Family

Regnaud had married in 1795 Laure Guesnon de Bonneuil, the daughter of a former Maître d'Hôtel of the Count of Artois. They had no children,[citation needed] but his natural son Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély became Marshal of France.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911, p. 46.
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  3. ^ a b "The Links and relationship between Malta and France". The Malta Independent. 7 August 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020.
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 46–47.
  5. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 47.

References

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