Pierre Victor, baron Malouet

Pierre Victor, baron Malouet (11 February 1740 – 7 September 1814), was a

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Life

Malouet was born in

Back in France he was well received at court, and the execution of his plans in Guiana was assured. Malouet was appointed intendant of the port of

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After the

, but Malouet died the same year. His memoires were published in 1868.

Malouet was the author of a lengthy prose poem with a nautical theme, Les quatre parties du jour à la mer, published in 1783.

Works

• Collection de ses opinions à l'Assemblée Nationale (3 vols., 1791–1792)
• Collection de mémoires et correspondences officielles sur l'administration des colonies et notamment sur la Guerre française et hollandaise (5 vols. 1802)
• Mémoire sur l'esclavage des negres dans les possessions françaises (Paris, 1788)
• Examen de cette question: Quel sera pour les colonies de l'Amerique le resultat de la revolution française? (London, 1797).
• Les quatre parties du jour à la mer (Paris, 1783)

References

Sources

• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Malouet, Pierre Victor, Baron" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Malouet, Pierre Victor, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 497.

Political offices
Preceded by Denis Decrès	Ministers of Marine and the Colonies 3 April 1814 – 7 September 1814	Succeeded by Jacques, comte Beugnot