Emmanuel de Serviez
Emmanuel-Gervais Roergas de Serviez is a soldier, administrator and politician French, born the February 27th 1755 with Saint-Gervais-on-Pond and deceased the October 18th 1804 with Paris.
Its usual name is Emmanuel de Serviez.
He is the grandson of Jacques Roergas de Serviez (1679-1727), historian and man of letters.
Career
Emmanuel de Serviez entered like private the Régiment Royal-Roussillon in 1772. He had arrived at the rank of captain in the royal army when the Révolution burst. He made countryside in the Armée with the Pyrenees, then in the Armée with the Rhine and became brigadier general on a purely provisional basis the August 29th 1793 and on a purely final basis the January 17th 1795. Imprisoned in 1793, it was released after the 9 Thermidor and was employed in the Armée with Italy. After the Treated of Campo Formio, it left the Army.It was named prefect of the the Low-Pyrenees the March 14th 1801.
March 27th, 1802, he was elected by the preserving Sénat, appointed of the Low-Pyrenees to the legislative Body, but he died before the end of the legislature. He is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.
Emmanuel de Serviez was member of the Légion of honor (November 26th 1803) and commander of the Order (June 14th 1804).
Writings
During its military career, then as a prefect, Emmanuel de Serviez écrivit :
- a booklet against the “German system” which the Minister for the war Saint-Germain had wanted to introduce (1788).
- a Address with the soldiers to exhort them with the discipline (1790).
- Memory for the hospitals , Paris, impr. of Brewer, 1792,8 p.
- a novel entitled Premises of Annette , Paris, the Villette, 1792,167 p.
- Exposé control of Emmanuel Were useful, soldier of freedom, since the Revolution, and in particular during the blockade of Pram or it was employed in the capacity as Paris, brigadier general , impr. of Desenne, 1794,36 statistical p.
- of the department of the Low-Pyrenees , Pau, Impr. of Daumon, An X ; Paris, impr. the Deaf-mute ones, An X ; 140 p.
- Precise history of the blockade of Pram, with the details of all the évènemens whose this common was the theater, by an eyewitness , Gertruydemberg, 1802.
- Mémoire on the agriculture and especially on the clearing of the moor known as Bridge-Length, in the Low-Pyrenees , Paris, 1803.
Others
A street of the center of Pau (Yrénées-Atlantiques) bears its name: street Were useful.
Sources
- Michaud, '' old and modern universal Biographie '', volume XXXIX, p. 151.
- Dictionary of the French members of Parliament (1789-1889) , volume V.
- Saint-Went, '' universal Nobiliaire of France '', volume V, pp. 68-69.