Benoit Mottet of the Fountain

Benoît Mottet of the Fountain is an officer feather ministry for the navy and colonies.

Born the July 4th 1745 with the Castle from Compiegne, it dies the April 30th 1820, at the 75 years age, street of the Capuchins, with Pondichéry and is buried in the French cemetery of the street Surcouf.

Deputy of the the Great East of France police chief of the Navy, then commander and president of the provincial Council of Chandernagor, colonial prefect (1803), police chief-director of the French establishments of India, president of the Superior council with Pondichéry under the Restoration, General Mottet of the Fountain, Governor off Pondicherry . An article of the Annales histories of the French revolution speaks about the baron Benoit Mottet of the Fountain, governor of Pondichéry. With Genealogical and Heraldic History off the Colonial Gentry… by Bernard Burke, on the other hand, the known as general, which is erroneous.

Its family

He is the son of the baron Claude Nicolas Louis Mottet of the Mound, officer in the hunting of the king and his/her mother is Coustant. One his/her brothers, Louis Mottet Nickel silver, is general police chief of the colonies. His/her niece Agathe de Rambaud, lullaby of the children of France, is the sister-in-law of Georges-Rene Pléville Pelley, admiral and Minister for the First Republic.

Before the English occupation of Pondichéry

At the beginning of its career, we find it:

on January 1st, 1764, clerk at the office of the colonies to the ministry for the Navy in Versailles. It is 18 years old.
In December 1764 at 1768, made with Rochefort,
on August 16th, 1768, writer of the navy
In 1770, writer at the office of control of the navy.

Benoît Mottet of the Fountain starts from Lorient on March 4th, 1779, on Severe the , vessel of 64 guns, the 'Mauritius, then called island of France. He is the companion of Andre de Rambaud, lieutenant of the artillery company of the volunteers of Lauzun, husband-to-be of his niece, Agathe de Rambaud, protected from the Baillif de Suffren and friend of Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. Mottet must then discharge a mission impossible: to supply the fleet of Suffren and the armies of Bussy. This last obtains the confirmation of its provisional nomination, ordinary under police chief of the colonies, by the local commission. It succeeds Dangereux which devotes from now on to the care of its French Compagnie of the Eastern Indies

It is thereafter sent by the Company as police chief to Chandernagor for redynamiser the trade after the war.

Benoît Mottet of the Fountain is, in 1789, ordnance officer of the king and president of the Superior council of Pondichéry, with Banal, Boistel, Law de Lauriston, one of the Monnerot brothers. The ordnance officer of a colony undertakes all the civil administration, including finances, the trade, navigation, the police force and justice.

The events of summer 1789 are known in February 1790: very quickly, a poster requires the removal of the Superior council of Pondichéry, whose Mottet is the president. The ship had brought its nomination like general agent for the nation . It then decides to make reforms. The natives must pay a new tax and be enlisted to defend the colony against the English.

In 1790, with Chandernagor, ordering it Montigny is stopped. Lord Cornwallis must release it and they take refuge in Calcutta. Benoît Mottet of the Fountain in the name of the colonial Parliament of Pondichéry comes to replace Montigny, as governor of Chandernagor. Certain Canaples makes the same request in the name of the colonial assembly of the Ile de France. It is declared treacherous with the fatherland .

Benoît Mottet of the Fountain receives instructions of Bertrand, Minister for the Navy, on October 8th, 1791 that it after a fashion tries to apply.

Mottet thus tries in vain to restore a little order in the colony. Enough quickly, he believes more careful to withdraw itself with Calcutta where he groups around him a certain number of driven out French of the various French colonies of the Indian Ocean by the revolutionists

During the English occupation of Pondichéry

Benoît Mottet of the Fountain records as from April 1793 the decisions in the name of the nation and of the loy . He is the Director of Pondichéry in 1793 But as of on June 1st, 1793, the vessels of the English block the communications by sea. The last deliberation of the Superior council adopted with in the chair Benoit Mottet, dated June 17th, 1793, is thus written: the city being about to be besieged, the Council decides to suspend its audiences and those of the court, to let each one deliver in entirety to common defense . July 11th, 1793, the English army is under the walls of Pondichéry. In order to weaken the resistance of besieged, the English throw in the city of the bombs containing of the leaflets with the portrait of Louis XVI with this legend: I die innocent , and of the newspapers announce the death of the king. The discord among the French makes it possible to the English to take the city.

Attributions of the ordnance officer are transferred to an English commander dependant on Madras. Part of the population is off-set in metropolis by the occupant, but Mottet and his choose them to remain, fearing to be victim of the Terreur. Benoît Mottet keeps the presidency of the Council of Pondichéry during the 23 years of the English occupation and his residence of function.

The short interlude from July in September 1803, consecutive with the treaty of Amiens, makes that Decaen, sent by Napoleon in India to take again possession of the French counters following the peace of Amiens in March 1802 arrives with a troop of 150 men. Mr. Mottet is named in the place of the colonial prefect.

While the ships of Decaen wet in front of Pondichéry, Binot is descended to ground. The English hardly agree to accommodate it, in June 1803. They purposely make not evacuate Pondichéry, from the point of view of a reopening of the hostilities. What does not fail to arrive. Wellesley makes come in the city a squadron from 9 ships, and Decaen must be folded up to protect the island from France. Benoît Mottet of the Fountain is named 2nd judge with Pondichéry on May 15th, 1805. The wire of Benoit Mottet of the Fountain leave to make their studies in France, in particular in Compiegne, in their uncle François Mottet, who was president of the district of Compiegne, then at Louis Melchior Mottet, his brother. His/her Edouard son will marry with the girl of the English governor of Chandernagor in 1805, which will control Pondichéry of 1805 to 1811, Lord Ernest William Fallofield. This marriage symbolizes the bonds which exist between these Europeans with the other end of the world.

Restoration

December 4th, 1816, the English administration returns officially Pondichéry to France, thus respecting the terms of the treaty of Paris of May 30th, 1814, confirmed by that of November 20th, 1815. Benoît Mottet of the Fountain is ordnance officer of the whole of the French establishments of India and chair Superior council Pondichéry, but for a few weeks only, since it takes his retirement - with granting of the honorary membership - on January 1st, 1817. Benoît Mottet of the Fountain dies on April 30th, 1820, at the 75 years age.

Descendants

Benoit Mottet of the Fountain Marie on May 20th, 1787 with Pondichéry with Marie Marguerite Villon de Fécamp, girl of Louis Victor Villon, marquis de Fécamp, and of Catherine Solminihac de Chaune. Mrs. Mottet collects fossils that the cousin of her husband Philippe Edouard Poulletier de Verneuil will announce in 1848 . Marie Villon de Fécamp dies at the 65 years age on March 4th, 1827. She is buried with the catholic European cemetery of Saint-Lazare with Pondy, with her mother and one of her grand-daughters, died young person. She had married at the 15 years age. They had 7 children, 5 are still in life in 1827.

His/her daughter, Victorine Mottet of the Fountain, born in 1817, Marie with the general John Doveton (1767-1847) and they live with Doveton House .
Edouard Mottet of the Fountain (1793-1875), captain, then major of brigade of the division of Hyderâbâd (India).
Marie Clotilde Mottet of the Fountain (1793-1872) was born at the time of the voyage of his/her mother in France, in her family of Compiegne during the Terreur. It is high with Pondichéry, in the private mansion of its family, street of the Capuchins. It Marie on November 13rd, 1816 with Henry II Russell, British Reside of the autonomous princely State of Hyderâbâd (India).

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