Félix Desportes
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Félix Desportes (August 5, 1763 – August 28, 1849) was the first mayor of Montmarte, secretary to Lucien Bonaparte, and Prefect of Haut-Rhin.[1][2]
He ensured diplomatic missions for the various regimes resulting from the French Revolution and played a decisive role during the reuniting of Geneva with France. Under the consulate and then the French Empire, he was appointed Prefect of Haut-Rhin and received the title of Baron. Elected member of the House of Representatives during the Hundred Days, where he sat among the liberals, he had to go into exile after the Second Restoration. Back in France, he gave up his political career after 1830.
He was the grandfather of Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a governess who was embroiled in a murder-suicide scandal.