Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 26 September 1815 – 7 May 1816 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVIII |
| Preceded by | Étienne-Denis, baron Pasquier |
| Succeeded by | Joseph, vicomte Lainé |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 March 1756 |
| Died | 21 August 1845 (aged 89) |
| Party | Friends of the Monarchist Constitution (1789–1791) Feuillants Club (1791–1793) Clichy Club (1794–1797) Independent (1797–1815) Ultra-royalist (1815–1830) Legitimist (1830–1845) |
| Spouse | Mademoiselle de Fontenelle |
Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc, 1st baron Viénot de Vaublanc and of the Empire (French: [vɛ̃sɑ̃maʁi vjeno d(ə) voblɑ̃]; 2 March 1756 – 21 August 1845), known as the Count de Vaublanc (Comte de Vaublanc, [kɔ̃t d(ə) voblɑ̃]), was a French royalist politician, official, writer and artist. He was a deputy for the Seine-et-Marne department in the French Legislative Assembly, served as president of the same body, and from 26 September 1815 to 7 May 1816, he was Minister of the Interior.
His political career had him rubbing shoulders with Louis XVI, Napoleon, the Count of Artois (the future Charles X), and finally Louis XVIII. He was banished and recalled four times by different regimes, never arrested, succeeding each time in regaining official favour. In a long and eventful career, he was successively a monarchist deputy during the Revolution and under the Directoire, an exile during the Terror, a deputy under Napoleon, Minister of the Interior to Louis XVIII and eventually, at the end of his political career, a simple ultra-royalist deputy.
He is remembered now for the fiery eloquence of his speeches, and for his controversial reorganisation of the Académie Française in 1816 while Minister of the Interior. A man of order, he was a moderate supporter of the Revolution of 1789 and ended his political life under the Restoration as a radical counterrevolutionary.