Jean-François Gaultier de Biauzat
See also: Gaultier
Jean-François Gaultier de Biauzat (Vodable October 22nd 1739, Paris February 22nd 1815) is a French politician who illustrated himself in particular during the French revolution.
Childhood
The Jean-François young person was born in an large family from Vodable (Puy-de-Dôme), owner of the stronghold of Biauzat. He was the son of François Gaultier de Biauzat, lawyer, lord of the manor of Vodable, and Jacquette Jourde. He was with the college Jésuite of Billom then of Toulouse. He exerted then the trade of lawyer to Clermont-Ferrand.
The political career
He enters in policy while becoming in 1787 member of the provincial council of Auvergne. He then is elected appointed of the Tiers state to represent the Sénéchaussée Clermont with the General states. He lent to it the Serment of the play of palm the June 20th 1789. At the time of the choice of the names of department in 1790, it pled so that the department whose Clermont-Ferrand is the place chief does not call Mont-d'Or (Mount-Gilds with the current orthography) but Puy-de-Dôme. It feared that the name Mont-d'Or makes too rich.
He is elected mayor of Clermont-Ferrand in 1790. Post that it will occupy until in 1791. He will be imprisoned during the Terreur then released the 9 Thermidor An II (July 27th 1794) at the time of the coup d'etat which will see the Chute of Robespierre. After its release, it will find its post of mayor whom it will occupy until July 1795.
It will enter to the Conseil of the Five hundred founded by the constitution of the An III. After the dissolution of the council following the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire by Napoleon Bonaparte, he became police chief and public prosecutor near the court of the the Seine (1799 - 1802), but he had to resign for health reasons (he will finish his blind life). It was named judge, then to advise at the imperial Court of Paris and remained it until its death.
He married in 1769, with Ambert, Puy-de-Dôme, Claudine Antoinette Vimal (1739-1789). Their daughter Marie Antoinette (1773-1845) and her husband Jean Baptist Abraham (1768-1815), lawyer at the bar of Clermont-Ferrand, general secretary of the Puy-de-Dôme, is the grandparents of another mayor of Clermont-Ferrand, Act-Leon Ledru.
A street of Clermont-Ferrand bears its name.