Jean-Louis Cheynet

Jean-Louis Cheynet (Montélimar, March 4th 1741 - Montélimar, November 29th 1809) is a Politician French.

Biography

Resulting from a family of the upper middle classes of Montélimar originating in the Vivarais, of which certain branches reached the nobility during XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries (of which the branch of Cheynet de Beaupré), Jean-Louis Cheynet was born in Montélimar on March 4th, 1741 and was baptized there the following day, in the collegial Holy-Cross. One of its great-great-uncles, Charles Cheynet, born in Montélimar in 1668, deceased with Lyon in 1762, president in the Court of the Currencies of this city, mathematician, musicologist and friend of Jean-Philippe Branch, was in 1700 one of the founders of the Academy of Science, Belles-Lettres and Arts of the town of Lyon, member of the Academy in the Concert and the first, establishes the theory of the authentic generation of the minor third. Louis Cheynet (1714-1791), father of the deputy, was consul of Montélimar, in particular in the year 1754. The mother of the deputy, Magdeleine Louise Michel, was the girl of Jean-Andre Michel, royal notary with Montélimar, and of Louise Loubaud. His/her grandfather Jacques Cheynet (1679-1760), his great-grandfather Charles Cheynet, deceased in 1707 had been consuls of Montélimar, just like were to it his brother and many his cousins, uncles or Cheynet great-uncles.

Jean-Louis Cheynet first of all followed studies of right to Grenoble, where it obtained its diploma of graduate, then of bachelor of law of the university. At the conclusion of its studies, it was accepted lawyer at the Parliament of Grenoble then returned to live its birthplace, of which he was first alderman in 1768, at the time of its marriage with Jeanne Claudine Elisabeth Nicolas of Roure, girl of Jacques-Daniel, lawyer of the king in the échevinage of Montélimar, lord of Roure with the Châteauneuf-of-Rhone, captain of huntings of prince de Monaco, and Jeanne Monique Laurans.

In 1789, Arthur Young, the famous English agronomist, returned visit in Montélimar to Mrs. Cheynet, interview which he tells in his Voyage in France : “August 22nd 1789: “Having a letter for Mr. Faujas of Saint-Bottom, naturalist celebrates it who equipped the world with many works on the volcanos, ballooning and various other branches of the natural history, I had satisfaction, after me to be enquis about it, to learn that it was in Montélimar, and, having been to find it, to see that this man of a distinguished merit was nicely placed and that all that surrounded it a real ease indicated. It accepted me with the frank courtesy which is in conformity with its character; it presented to me on the field with Mr. the Béranger abbot, who lived close to his country house and was, said to me it, an excellent farmer, like with another Sir, whose taste took the same creditable direction. The evening, Mr. Faujas took to me to carry out itself in a friend who devotes herself to same research, Mrs. Cheynet, whose husband is member of the National Assembly; if it with good fortune to find with Versailles another lady as pleasant as that which it left in Montélimar, its mission will not be sterile and it will be able to perhaps get busy better than to vote regenerations. This lady accompanied us in a walk which we made to visit the surroundings of Montélimar, and I be pleased to see that it was an excellent cultivatrice, with a great practice of this art; it had kindness to answer many of my questions, particularly about the culture of silk. I if was charmed naivety French in the text of character and the pleasant conversation of this charming lady that a longer stay downtown this would have been delicious; - but the plow! . ”

In 1774, Jean-Louis Cheynet had acquired the lawyer office of the king to the seat of the seneschalsy, left vacant by the death of Claude-Bernard Boisset, load which it resold in 1785 with Mathieu-Barthelemy Odouard, future knight of the Empire. In January 1787, he became mayor of Montélimar at the end of a patent of the Duc of Orleans, future Philippe-Equality, governor of the Dauphine one. In 1788, it went to Grenoble to compliment the Parliament, of return of exile.

Lieutenant general in large baillage of Valence following transitory reform of Turgot and of edicts of May 8th 1788 - office which he did not exert in the facts -, he took part in the Assemblée of Vizille then, on August 24th, 1788, was appointed by the Montélimar city with the Parliament of Romans. Elected official appointed of Dauphine with the General states on January 5th, 1789, the almanac of Dauphine mentions it in this year 1789 like " honorary colonel of the militia citizen of Montélimar, mayor and appointed ". June 20th, 1789, it lent the Serment of Jeu de Paume and signed the official report of the meeting. In August, it accepted the medal offered to all the deputies to commemorate the abandonment of the privileges. Moderated, it was monarchien and sat almost constantly with the majority of Constituent, supporting in the first times Jean-Joseph Mounier. He voted in favor of the establishment of the assignats and voted white on the question of the fastening of Avignon. In 1790, he became president of the court of Montélimar, position which he occupied in fact only after the dissolution of the constituent Assembly. In 1792, It was let appoint president of the " Company of the Friends of the Freedom and the Equality of Montélimar" , club which gathered the " enragés" city, which was worth to him some concern during the reaction thermidorienne. The 8 brumaire year IV, the Conseil of the Five hundred did not include/understand it less among its candidates for the election of the members of the Directoire. April 8th, 1800, Bonaparte, First consul, named it first assistant of the mayor of Montélimar, places that it gave up at the end of the same year, jointly with the mayor, Mr. de Saulces de Freycinet, to protest against the hugeness of the taxes. He was also, since June 1st, 1800 (12 meadow year VIII), government commissioner close the court of Montélimar. In 1803, it chaired the assembly of the canton and was member of the council of district. It was finally, under the Empire, imperial prosecutor near the county court of Montélimar.

Its house of the street Amount-with-castle, where he died on November 29th, 1809 and that one can still see today, to the angle of the place to Grasses, had been restored by its care. It had enriched it by pieces of furniture and objects bought in Paris at the time of its delegation. The stair-well, square and very clear, in the taste of the XVIIIe finishing century, is decorated of noble and beautiful slope out of wrought iron. It leads to the large living room, located on the first floor, where is an admirable chimney regency in marble marquetry, which comes from the Château of Grignan. Of his marriage with Elisabeth Nicolas of Roure, Jean-Louis Cheynet had had three children, a boy and two girls. Since 1989, a place of its town of Montélimar commemorates its memory and in 2006, a plate was affixed on its residence by Mr. Franck Reynier, mayor of Montélimar.

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