Charles Cochon Lapparent, was born in Champdeniers-Saint-Denis

Champdeniers-Saint-Denis

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 on 24 January 1750 and died in Poitiers

Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...

 on 17 July 1825. He was a French politician and Minister of Police.

He was born into a bourgeois

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 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

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, he participated in the fall of Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre

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. During a meeting of the French Directory

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 he was appointed minister of police. However, he was accused of being royalist and deported. During the time of the Consulate

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 and the First French Empire

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, he held important posts, but in 1815 he was forced to leave France

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, being allowed to return to Poitiers after a year of exile.