Louis-Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant

Louis-Gustave Doulcet, count de Pontécoulant , born with Caen on November 17th, 1764 and died in Paris on April 3rd, 1853, is a French Politician.

Louis-Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant began his career in the army in 1778 as officer in the Scottish company from the bodyguards under monarchy. He is laid off in 1791, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Moderate partisan of the Revolution, it represents the Calvados in 1792 with the Convention and becomes police chief with the Armées with North. He entered then to the Comité of war.

He votes the imprisonment of Louis XVI during the war and his banishment after peace. He votes the committal for trial of Jean-Paul Marat. He is issued of charge the October 3rd 1793 after being itself allied with the Girondins. He takes refuge in Suisse.

Refusing to take the defense of Charlotte Corday, Normande and of Gironde like him, this one makes him the reproach in a letter of it that she writes to him in way for the scaffold. With the fall of Maximilien de Robespierre, he is re-elected with the Convention on March 8th, 1795 when he makes watch of an uncommon spirit of moderation in his defense of Prieur of the Marne and of Robert Lindet. President of the Convention in July 1795, he is member a few months of the Comité of public hello.

Elected official appointed with the the Council of the Five hundred, it sits on the right, but does not belong to the Club of Clichy, but it is proscribed all the same after the Coup d'etat of the 18 fructidor year V (September 4th 1797) to be suspecté of Royalisme before the establishment of the Consulat.

It returns to France after the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire An VIII (November 9th 1799), becomes prefect of the Dyle, senator in 1805 and count d' Empire in 1808, it organizes the National guard in Franche-Comté in 1811 and the defense of the north-eastern border in 1813. With the Restoration, Louis XVIII the even fact of France and senator.

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