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Vaublanc

Vincent-Marie Viénot
Count of Vaublanc
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31st Minister of the Interior (France)
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(s) Mademoiselle de Fontenelle

Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc (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.

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.

Born and raised at Fort-Dauphin, Saint-Domingue (now Fort-Liberté, Haiti), into an aristocratic family from Bourgogne, he was the eldest son of Vivant-François Viénot de Vaublanc, commanding officer of Fort Saint-Louis in Fort-Dauphin. He saw Metropolitan France for the first time at the age of seven.


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