Claude-François Bertrand de Boucheporn

Claude-François Bertrand Boucheporn (November 4, 1741 – February 20, 1794) was a French magistrate and intendant of the Ancien Régime, born in Metz (Moselle). He was counselor in the parliament of Metz (1761), General Counsel (1768–1771), Maître des Requêtes to the King's Council (from 1772 to the Revolution), intendant of Corsica (1775–1785), intendant of the Généralité of Pau, Bayonne and Auch (from 1785 to the French Revolution).

Under the Terror, Boucheporn was tried, sentenced to death and beheaded in Toulouse on February 20, 1794 at the age of 53.

Originating from Metz, Boucheporn's family of parliamentarians was knighted in 1689. His father Louis-Pierre Bertrand de Chailly (1709–1773) was a member of the parliament in Metz. His mother, Marguerite-Henriette Salomon (1717–1786) comes from a noble family in Alsace, possibly of Venetian origin according to tradition and from which the German writer Ernst von Salomon also descends.

Boucheporn married in 1765 Barbe Catherine Dancerville (1742–1803), the daughter of Jean-Pierre Dancerville, president of the Présidial de Metz, with whom he had eight children.

One of his grandsons is the French geologist (1811–1857), whose son, an artillery officer from the École Polytechnique, being the last of his name and with no descendants, adopted in 1917 his nephew, , a cavalry officer, who rose up the name of Boucheporn

Boucheporn read law at the University of Paris and was received as a counselor to the parliament of Metz in 1761, becoming a General Counsel in 1768. In that capacity, in 1771, he pleaded the cause of Mr Le Boeuf de Valdahon in a famous case against the who was opposing Valdahon's marriage to his daughter, on the ground that he had seduced her eight years before, while she was still under-age.

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