Claude Hochet
| Claude Hochet | |
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| Secretary-General of the Conseil d'État | |
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In office 1816 – 12 March 1839 |
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| Succeeded by | Prosper Hochet |
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Claude Jean-Baptiste Hochet 24 November 1772 Paris, France |
| Died | 3 October 1857 (aged 84) Château de la Thibaudière, Montreuil-Juigné, Maine et Loire, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist, civil servant, iron master |
Claude Hochet (24 November 1772 – 3 October 1857) was a French journalist, author and civil servant who was secretary-general of the Conseil d'État from 1816 to 1839. He is best known as a friend of Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Abel-François Villemain and Prosper de Barante. Their letters to him have been preserved, and are a valuable record of the intellectual life of the First French Empire.
Claude Hochet was born in Paris on 24 November 1772 in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, parish of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine. His parents were Claude Thomas Hochet (1735–1807}, a Paris spice merchant, and Marie Elisabeth Révérard (died 1807). He had four sisters.
During the French Revolution Hochet joined the army during the mass conscription decreed by the National Convention. On 4 November 1793 he left Paris with his battalion to fight the Chouans at Coutances. When the troops reached Carentan they mutinied and made for Cherbourg. Hochet was one of four officers who were arrested. They were imprisoned in turn in Avranches, Dol, Rennes and then Arras, where they spent several months. They were released after the Thermidorian Reaction of 27 July 1794. For a short time Hochet was Secretary of the Council of Commerce, which was under the Committee of Public Safety. He then began a career as a journalist, and was one of the first contributors to Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard's Le Publiciste, where he was a drama critic. He translated Niccolò Machiavelli's The Art of War, edited the letters of Émilie du Châtelet, and wrote a brochure about the Council of State.
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