Joseph Pellet of Lozere

Privat Joseph Claramont Pellet, count Pelet of Lozere , is a French politician born with Saint-Jean-of-Gard (Gard) the July 12th 1785 and died in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) the February 9th 1871.

Biography

Resulting from a Protestant family, oldest son of Jean Pellet of Lozere (1759 - 1842), politician under the First Empire, and of Marie-Antoinette Rodier, it makes his studies with Paris, Lyon and Geneva and between like supernumerary with the ministry for the Interior. He is named listener with the Council of State in 1806 and, a little later general administrator of the forests of the Crown. He is promoted Maître of the requests in 1811 and is named administrator of the extraordinary field (1814). He marries (1812) Sophie Otto de Mosloy, girl of Louis-Guillaume Otto (1754 - 1817), count de Mosloy, former ambassador with Vienna (Austria).

Named prefect of Loir-et-Cher the February 24th 1819 under the Restoration, it is relieved like liberal, and also, says one, like Protestant, by the count de Corbière in 1823. It is promoted to advise State.

Elected official appointed of the 1st district of Loir-et-Cher (Blois) the November 17th 1827 and the same day in the 2nd district (Vendôme), it chooses Blois and takes seat with the center-left of the Room. He votes in particular against the Polignac cabinet.

Re-elected in Blois the July 12th 1830, it adopts the Monarchie of July and supports the government of its votes, while opinant sometimes with the Left Third. At the time of the general elections of the July 5th 1831, it is re-elected appointed of Blois and elected official also in the 2nd district of the Lozere (Florac) and chooses Blois, where it is re-elected the June 21st 1834.

In February 1835, the marshal Soult, solicited by Louis-Philippe to form a new ministry, has a presentiment of Pelet of Lozere, like Jean-Louis Calmon and Charles Dupin, but this combination does not succeed. Nevertheless, the following year, Pelet of Lozere becomes Minister for the State education in the first ministry Thiers of the February 22nd to the September 6th 1836. It attaches its name to the “law Pelet” of the July 23rd 1836 (it is acted in fact of a royal decree), which encourages the communes to have at least an elementary school of girls.

Because of this nomination, it must be represented in front of its voters and is re-elected the March 30th 1836. After having left the ministry, it enters the active opposition to the government Molé. To undoubtedly disarm it, this one makes it name Pair France in the batch of the October 3rd 1837, made up men of the Left Third, deputies middle course and legitimists rejoined. But, at the Room of the pars, Pelet of Lozere its independence of judgment and vote preserves.

In 1840, it is Minister for Finance in the second ministry Thiers, directed at the center left, of March 1st to the October 28th.

It takes share, at the beginning of 1848, the debate on the address in answer to the speech from the throne. After the Revolution of 1848, it withdraws public life and dies in Villers-Cotterêts in 1871. It is its nephew, Pierre Eugene Roussel, who is his sole legatee; he bequeaths however to his cousin Fernand Salanson the castle of Solier.

Decorations

Large Officer of the Legion of honor.

Works

Pellet of Lozere wrote a very interesting work starting from notes taken during the meetings of the Council of State chaired by Napoleon i to which it assisted under the title Opinions of Napoleon on various subjects of policy and administration collected by a member of its Council of State (1833).

One owes him also a Précis of the history of the United States of America since their colonization (1845) and a collection of Pensées morals and political (1873).

Residence

Paris, street of the Fields-Élysées, n° 4 (1841)

References

External bond

biographical Card on the site of the National research institute teaching
Biographical note of Joseph Pellet of Lozere, extract of the work Ministers for Finance of the French revolution to the Second Empire , Committee for the economic and financial history of France, 2007,624 p, (ISBN 978-2-11-094807-6).

Sources

Benoit Yvert (to dir.), Dictionary of the ministers of 1789 to 1989 , Paris, Perrin, 1990, p. 169

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