Emmanuel Crétet

Emmanuel Crétet de Champmol , born the February 10th 1747 with the Pont-de-Beauvoisin in Savoy, dead the November 28th 1809 with Paris, is a French administrator and politician who were Minister of Interior Department of Napoleon Bonaparte and person in charge of much of installations in Paris. It is buried with the the Pantheon of Paris.

Biography

Wire of François Crétet of the Rivals (1680-1763), it is resulting from a family of traders of Bridge of Beauvoisin and after its studies, it enters as clerk in a ship-owner of Bordeaux. It makes several times the voyage from America, before becoming director of a case of insurance against the fires in Paris.

In 1791, disappointed consequences of the continuations of the Revolution, it uses its personal fortune to acquire a national good, the Chartreuse de Champmol, in Gold Coast, where it is withdrawn.

Réintéressant itself with the public affairs, it becomes appointed Coast-with Or and elected then with the council of Old in brumaire year IV (1795).

Favorable to the novel ideas, it supports the coup d'etat de Bonaparte (18 brumaire, An VIII, November 9th, 1799) who thanks it like for advising State in 1799.

It defines what must control financial flows, project which will become the Banque de France (of which he will be first director in 1806).

In 1801, it takes part in the signature of the Concordat.

It establishes the constitution and the realization of the first Cadastre in 1802 and the requirements of the notarial follow-up.

Become director of the Highways Departments in 1806, it is at the origin of the decisions and the achievements of many adjustments of public health in Paris and repair of the transportation routes in all the country (which it will not see all not realized of alive sound).

Minister of Interior Department on August 11th, 1807, it contresigns the decree of March 17th, 1808 which organizes the imperial University.

All that confirmed by the ordinary service of the 4 nivôse year VIII to 1808, where it definite is attached to the section of the interior and year IX at year XI, especially charged with the Highways Departments, the ship canals and the Cadastre:

attributions of the sixth division, which is especially entrusted to C.en Crétet, adviser of state, are, the Highways Departments, channels, inland navigation, registers, tax of maintenance of the roads, and telegraph lines. The sixth division includes/understands five subdivisions: the expenditure, receipts, the secretariat, files, and inland navigation. |Extract of the files of the Council of State.

It contributes to the installation of inland waterways, streets in Paris and reorganizes the body of the engineers of the Bridge-and-Roadways.

June 29th, 1809, he resigns for health reason (attacks of drop) of his load of Minister of Interior Department and he is replaced by Joseph Fouché.

He dies on November 28th, 1809 with 94 rue du Bac, in Paris-Auteuil.
Its funerals take place on December 1st, 1809, in the Church Saint-Thomas d' Aquin, and it is buried the Pantheon.

Works

Installation in Paris

of inland waterways like the Channel of Ourcq, and the basins of the Villette
of streets in Paris
of the free drinkable water supply by public fountains (Fountain of the Palm tree, fountain of Fellah,…)
of the bridges of Austerlitz, that of Iéna,
the Granary having to contain more than three months of vivres (flour, oil, wine) which will be then burnt during the Commune of Paris (1871)
Produce exchange of Paris by the architect Alexandre Theodore Brongniart
the Madeleine (then temple with the glory of its Large army)
Triumphal arch
different the slaughter-houses from Paris
the ground burial and stop of the tombs in the churches
the reorganizations of the cemeteries, out of the limits of the city:

the Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise by Alexandre Theodore Brongniart,
the Cemetery of Belleville,
the Cemetery of Montmartre,
the Cemetery of Montparnasse.

In the remainder of the country

the first French road tunnel: the Tunnel of the Scales (of the imperial road Paris-Milan) in Savoyard Tectonic foreland, in order to improve the conditions of passage enters France and the states of Savoy (inaugurated only in 1820).
road Project of the Mount-Cenis.
Road with the passage of the collar of the Simplon
Bridges with Roanne, with Bordeaux
Rebuilding of the Roche-sur-Yon where Napoleon come to control advanced work in 1807, will say: “I spread gold with full hands to build palates, you built a town of mud” (because Emmanuel Crétet, had decided, without its opinion, to make it rebuild by François Cointeraux first specialist in the Pisé).

Titles

Appointed in 1795,
Senator and adviser of State in 1799,
Ordering Legion of honor in 1805,
To advise State with life in 1806.
Governor of the Banque de France from April 26th, 1806 to August 9th, 1807,
Minister of Interior Department of 1807 until June 29th, 1809,
Count de Champmol on April 26th, 1808.

Homages

Tomb with the the Pantheon of Paris * A street of Paris, parallel with the street Jean-Baptiste Say and the boulevard of Rochechouard, bears its name in IXe district and a length of 58 Mr.
Pose of a commemorative plaque to the garden of city of the Bridge of Beauvoisin (Savoy), on Saturday, September 15, 2007 at the time of the Journées of the Inheritance.
Its armorial bearings: Armorial of the streets of Paris IX {{E}} district
Its portrait with the Bridge of Arts by the painter Antoine Ansiaux (Liege, 1764 - Paris, 1840), with the museum of the Art schools of Dijon

Notes of the emperor with Crétet, his Minister of Interior Department

Saint-Cloud, September 1st, 1807:
“ the begging is an object of first importance. The Emperor asked for various reports/ratios, that one did not make; but one had to present work. The things should be established in manner that one could say: any beggar will be stopped. But to stop it to put it in prison would be barbarian or absurd. It should only be stopped to learn how to him to earn its living by its work. One thus needs one or more houses or workshops of charity by department… ”
Saint-Cloud, September 2nd, 1807:
“ the minister is invited to write to the syndics of Lyon that the factory of this city does not manufacture so as to preserve its reputation. The green hanging, with the pink edges gold tissues, which was placed in the cabinet of Its Majesty, in Saint-Cloud, it does not have there much more than one year, already passed… ”

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