Claude Louis Petiet

Claude Louis Petiet

Claude Louis Petiet (February 9, 1749, Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or - May 25, 1806) was a Commissioner of war in 1778, elected to the Council of Elders in 1795, and was appointed Minister of War February 8, 1796. He was dismissed July 14, 1797 by the French Directory of Paul Barras, Jean-François Reubell and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux. Appointed to the State Council by Napoleon Bonaparte, he became steward of the army camp at Boulogne in 1805 and senator in 1806.

Career

His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.

Service

• Constable in the company of Queen's October 20, 1766.
• Subdelegation general stewardship of Britain on 1 September 1775
• Commissioner of war (leased office September 30, 1778).
• Employed in Saint-Malo December 26, 1778 Acting Administrator dated 25 June 1779 to August 1780.
• Clerk Police Coast Guard Division of Brest, March 8, 1782.
• Employed at Rennes in 1788.
• Attorney General Trustee of Ille-et-Vilaine in June 1790.
• Commissary, military chief judge of the 13th Division on 1 October 1791.
• Commissioner General of the Army of the Center March 31, 1792, passed in the same capacity with the army of the Ardennes on 1 October 1792. Returned to the 13th Division October 31, 1792.
• Employed at Lorient by representatives of the people in the West for supplying Lorient Belle-Ile, Port-Louis and Croix February 15, 1793.
• Authorizing the Chief of Army coast February 25, 1793.
• Authorizing the Chief of Brest and Côtes de Cherbourg on 1 May 1793. This service meets the 13th Division of the September 20, 1793.

Suspended by the representatives of the people and placed under arrest December 2, 1793, he returned to his post by the same representatives December 29, 1793.

• Authorizing the Chief of the Army of Sambre and Meuse April 15, 1795. Spent in that capacity in the army coast of Brest June 19, 1795.
• Member of the council of elders in October 1795.
• Member of Ille-et-Vilaine and Côte-d'Or.
• Minister of War February 8, 1796 (he signed the decree appointing General Bonaparte in command of the army of Italy).

Out of the legislature May 20, 1797, he was removed from his post as Minister of War July 23, 1797.

• Member of the Council of Five Hundred in 1799.
• Head of the First Division in the Ministry of War November 12, 1799.
• State Councilor December 24, 1799.
• Chief Inspector journals February 7, 1800.
• On a mission in Geneva April 28, 1800 [1]
• Cisalpine Minister extraordinary in 1800, Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission of Government of the Cisalpine Republic (1800–1802) and President of the Consulta (1800–1802).
• State Councilor extraordinary service September 22, 1800; Replaced in the inspectorate September 19, 1801.
• Commissioner General of the six camps June 22, 1803.
• Chairman of the Electoral College of the Yonne February 25, 1805.
• Quartermaster General of the Grand Army August 29, 1805 (organizing the camp of Boulogne and the campaign of Austerlitz) [2].
• Senator, May 19, 1806.

He died May 25, 1806 in his hotel, the current 8 Rue Monsieur in Paris 7th then 6 rue de Frejus. Napoleon did make a grandiose funeral May 27, attended the Senate, and the principal dignitaries of the Empire. After the ceremony, which took place in the Church of Foreign Missions Rue du Bac, his body was transported to the Pantheon. His eulogy was delivered by the Gaspard Monge, President of the Senate who traced his long career.

Campaigns

• 1779, Cotes de Bretagne;
• 1792 military center and the Ardennes;
• 1793, 1794, 1795, Army Odds and Sambre and Meuse;
• 1805 Ulm and Austerlitz, Grand Army.

Decorations

• Knight of St. Louis April 15, 1792
• Member of the Legion of Honor October 20, 1803
• Commander June 14, 1804
• Grand Officer May 8, 1806.

Legacy

Fifty years after the death of the surveyor-general, February 13, 1854, Sainte-Beuve wrote in his Lectures on Monday:

Amidst the scandals that characterize the administration of the Directory, the Ministry Petiet was an honorable exception. This minister, a good and deserving man, strove to keep proper accounts and after a fiscal year, he submitted the complete picture of its operations to the judgment of Legislative Council and the public; He did without hesitation and with sincerity

At the time of the coup d'état Fructidor, he warned his friends in the passage of Hoche's troops within the "constitutional radius" no troops should cross without the permission of the legislature. This leads to the arrest of the Executive to the rostrum of the Five Hundred, 30 Messidor by Delahaye. At the time of the coup d'état of 30 Messidor with Lucien Bonaparte, Jourdan and Augereau, he will ask for their resignation Larevelliere and Merlin.

In a letter dated October 17, 1799, to Caesar de la Tour-Maubourg, Lafayette wrote:

Petiet, a close friend of Moreau, requested to inform me that his friend did not ... the character out of the ordinary course and in a word, good for a head battle, it was not clean a company. It has caused yet fully with it and wait for news of this conversation.

It is true that as minister of war, Petiet had signed the appointment of Bonaparte at the head of the army of Italy and Moreau to the head of the Rhine. In a note to General Regnier, Moreau says:

Aubert de Bayet no longer minister of war, the commissioner who replaces Petiet. I know he is a man of great talent.

In her memoires, his son Augustine Petiet writes:

I delivered my dispatches to the Emperor asking for my name, I replied through my tears, remembering he had probably seen me at Austerlitz, Napoleon again point of the question he had posed. "Your father told me he was an honest man, he has done a lot for the state, he will live in history".

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2010-01-28 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

Political offices
Preceded by Jean-Baptiste Aubert-Dubayet	Secretary of State for War 8 February 1796 - 15 July 1797	Succeeded by Lazare Hoche

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Name	Petiet, Claude Louis
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Date of birth	February 9, 1749
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Date of death	May 25, 1806
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