Pierre-Marie Taillepied de Bondy

Pierre-Marie Taillepied , count of Bondy , is a French politician born with Paris the October 7th 1766 and died in the same city the January 11th 1847.

Biography

Resulting from a family from financial, Pierre-Marie Taillepied de Bondy became, in 1792, manufacturing director of the Assignat S. After the August 10th, it gave her resignation, which was granted to him only with reserve, and withdrew public life until the advent of the Empire.

The prince Eugene, with whom it was bound, made it name Chambellan of in 1805. It followed the emperor in his voyages and, with the return of the countryside of Austria, was named Maître of the requests to the Council of State and chair electoral college of the Indre (1809).

Created baron of the Empire (November 19th 1809) then count of the Empire (February 14th 1810), it was attached to the person of the kings de Saxe and of Bavaria and was with the number of the dignitaries sent to Karlsruhe with the front of the new empress Marie-Louise.

Named prefect of the Rhone in August 1810, it was characterized there by an administration active and vigilant, created the new district of Perrache to Lyon on marshes which it made fill and cleanse, the food shortage of 1812 prevented and gave a great rise to public works and the trade. At the time of the attack of Lyon by the allies in 1814, it organized itself the defense of the city and left there only with the last regiment.

The Austrian authorities of occupation replaced it on a purely provisional basis but, at the time of the First Restoration, the government, yielding to the authorities of the Lyoneses, agreed to maintain Taillepied de Bondy at its station. It left it there however only briefly and, after having drawn aside it, named it in compensation commander of the Légion of honor (November 20th 1814).

During the Hundred Days, Napoleon named it prefect of the Seine. Elected official representing with the Room of the Hundred Days the May 13rd 1815 by the district of the White (Indre), it knew, as prefect, to maintain the order in Paris, recommended the calm one and prudence to the approach of the allied troops, and was one of the three police chiefs charged to negotiate the convention of the July 3rd.

Under the Second Restoration, it appeared like witness for the defense in the lawsuit of the marshal Ney (December 1815). Elected official appointed by the large college of the department of Indre the October 4th 1816, it sat on the left among the defenders of the Charte and freedoms which it guaranteed. He was successively re-elected the October 20th 1818 and, in the 2nd electoral district of Indre (Châtre), the November 13rd 1822. The February 25th 1824, it failed in the same college and, eight days later, it also failed the college of department. But, the November 17th 1827, the 1st district electoral of Indre (Chateauroux) returned it to the Room. He voted the Adresse of the 221 against the ministry Polignac and was re-elected the June 23rd 1830.

After the Revolution of 1830, Taillepied de Bondy had to replace Odilon Barrot as prefect of the Seine in February 1831. In this delicate station, it could make assess its qualities of advised administrator. It left these functions to become Pair of France the November 19th 1831 in the batch of 36 pars named at the instigation of the government to make adopt by the Upper House the bill abolishing the Hérédité of peerage. At the Palate of Luxembourg, it sat among the ministerial ones. He became thereafter chamberlain of the queen Marie-Amélie and intendant of the civil list of the April 15th 1837 with the March 31st 1839 when the count de Montalivet was called with the government.

He was the father of François-Marie Taillepied de Bondy (1802 - 1890), par of France under the Monarchie of July and senator of the Third Republic.

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