Charles Cochon de Lapparent

Charles Cochon Lapparent (24 January 1750 in Champdeniers-Saint-Denis – 17 July 1825 in Poitiers) was a French politician^[1] and Minister of Police.^[2]

He was born into a bourgeois family that was formerly Protestant, a religion they were required to recant. Lapparent was elected deputy of the Third Estate, and he held important functions in the National Convention, in the armies of the Republic and the committee of public health. On 9 Thermidor, he participated in the fall of Robespierre. During a meeting of the French Directory he was appointed minister of police. However, he was accused of being royalist and deported. During the time of the Consulate and the First French Empire, he held important posts, but in 1815 he was forced to leave France, being allowed to return to Poitiers after a year of exile.

References

1. Pont, Bessie Gardner Du (1923). Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence. University of Delaware Press. p. 336.
2. Dawson, Philip (1972). Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789–1795. Harvard University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-674-71960-6.