Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
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Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc, 1st baron Viénot de Vaublanc and of the Empire as known as "count de Vaublanc" '[1] (2 March 1756 – 21 August 1845) was a French royalist politician, writer and artist. He was a deputy for the Seine-et-Marne département in the French Legislative Assembly, served as President of the same body, and from 26 September 1815 to 7 May 1816, he was the French Minister of the Interior.
Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc | |
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31st Minister of the Interior | |
In office 26 September 1815 – 7 May 1816 | |
Monarch | Louis XVIII |
Preceded by | Étienne-Denis, baron Pasquier |
Succeeded by | Joseph, vicomte Lainé |
Personal details | |
Born | (1756-03-02)March 2, 1756 Fort-Dauphin, Saint-Domingue |
Died | August 21, 1845(1845-08-21) (aged 89) Paris, Kingdom of France |
Nationality | French |
Political party | Friends of the Monarchist Constitution (1789–1791) Feuillants Club (1791–1793) Clichy Club (1794–1797) Independent (1797–1815) Ultra-royalist (1815–1830) Legitimist (1830–1845) |
Spouse | Mademoiselle de Fontenelle |
His political career had him rubbing shoulders with Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Count of Artois (the future Charles X of France), and finally Louis XVIII. He was banished and recalled four times by different regimes, never arrested, succeeding each time in regaining official favour. In a long and eventful career, he was successively a monarchist deputy during the Revolution and under the Directoire, an exile during the Terror, a deputy under Napoleon, Minister of the Interior to Louis XVIII and eventually, at the end of his political career, a simple ultra-royalist deputy.
He is remembered now for the fiery eloquence of his speeches, and for his controversial reorganisation of the Académie française in 1816 while Minister of the Interior. A man of order, he was a moderate supporter of the Revolution of 1789 and ended his political life under the Restoration as a radical counterrevolutionary.