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FRANCOIS DE See also:NEUFCHATEAU, See also:NICOLAS See also:LOUIS, See also:COUNT (1750–1828) , See also:French statesman and poet, was See also:born at Saffais near Rozieres in See also:Lorraine on the 17th of See also:April 1750, the son of a school-teacher. He studied at the Jesuit See also:college of Neufchateau in the See also:Vosges, and at the See also:age of fourteen published a See also:volume of See also:poetry which obtained the approbation of See also:Rousseau and of See also:Voltaire. Neufchateau conferred on him its name, and he was elected member of some of the See also:principal See also:academies of See also:France. In 1783 he was named procureur-See also:general to the See also:council of Santo Domingo. He had previously been engaged on a See also:translation of See also:Ariosto, which he finished before his return to France five years afterwards, but it perished during the shipwreck which occurred during his voyage See also:home. After the Revolution he was elected See also:deputy suppleant to the See also:National See also:Assembly, was charged with the organization of the See also:Department of the Vosges, and was elected later to the Legislative Assembly, of which he first became secretary and then See also:president. In 1793 he was imprisoned on See also:account of the See also:political sentiments, in reality very See also:innocent, of his See also:drama Pamela ou la vertu recompensee (See also:Theatre de la Nation, 1st See also:August 1793), but was set See also:free a few days afterwards at the revolution of the 9th See also:Thermidor. In 1797 he became See also:minister of the interior, in which See also:office he distinguished himself by the thoroughness of his See also:administration in all departments. It is to him that France owes its See also:system of inland See also:navigation. He inaugurated the museum of the Louvre, 534,000 „ 835,E „ and was one of the promoters of the first universal See also:exhibition of See also:industrial products. From 1804 to 18o6 he was president of the See also:Senate, and" in that capacity the See also:duty devolved upon him of soliciting See also:Napoleon to assume the See also:title of See also:emperor. In 18o8 he received the dignity of count.

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life in 1814, he occupied himself chiefly in the study of See also:agriculture, until his See also:death on the lotli of See also:January 1828. Francois de Neufchateau had very multifarious accomplishments, and interested himself in a See also:great variety of subjects, but his fame rests chiefly on what he did as a statesman for the encouragement and development of the See also:industries of France. His maturer poetical productions did not fulfil the promise of those of his See also:early years, for though some of his verses have a superficial elegance, his poetry generally lacks force and originality. He had considerable qualifications as a grammarian and critic, as is witnessed by his See also:editions of the Provinciales and Pensees of See also:Pascal (See also:Paris, 1822 and 1826) and Gil See also:Bias (Paris, 1820). His principal poetical See also:works are Poesies diverses (1765); See also:Ode sur See also:les parlements (1771) ; Nouveaux Conies moraux (1781) ; Les Vosges (1796) ; Fables et conies (1814); and Les Tropes, ou les figures de mots (1817). He was also the author of a large number of works on agriculture. See Recueil See also:des lettres, circulaires, discours et autres actes publics emanes du Cie. Francois See also:pendant ses deux exercices du minislere de l'interieur (Paris, An. vii.-viii., 2 vols.) ; See also:Notice biographique sur M. le See also:comte Francois de Neufchdteau (1828), by A. F. de Sillery; H. Bonnelier, Mimoires sur Francois de Neufchdteau (Paris, 1829) ; J. See also:Lamoureux, Notice historique et litteraire sur la See also:vie et les ecrits de Francois de Neufchdteau (Paris, 1843) ; E. Meaume, Etude historique et biographique sur les Lorrains revolulionnaires: Palissot, See also:Gregoire, Francois de Neufchdteau (See also:Nancy, 1882) ; Ch.

Simian, Francois de Neufchdteau et les expositions (Paris, 1889).

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