Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
French royalist politician, writer and artist
Years: 1756 - 1845
Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc (2 March 1756 – 21 August 1845) is a French royalist politician, writer and artist.
He is a deputy for the Seine-et-Marne département in the French Legislative Assembly, serves as President of the same body, and from 26 September 1815 to 7 May 1816, he is the French Minister of the Interior.
His political career has him rubbing shoulders with Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Count of Artois (the future Charles X of France), and finally Louis XVIII.
He is banished and recalled four times by different regimes, never arrested, succeeding each time in regaining official favor.
In a long and eventful career, he is 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 reorganization of the Académie française in 1816 while Minister of the Interior.
He strongly favors the motion for the enfranchisement of the slaves in the French colonies in America.
