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François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas-Louis

Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau

Born

17 April 1750

Died

10 January 1828

A schoolmaster’s son who published verse as a boy and served as procureur general at Cap-Français in Saint-Domingue, François de Neufchâteau was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Vosges and presided over it in December 1791. Elected to the Convention, he resigned immediately on grounds of health. In 1793 his comedy Paméla was performed at the Théâtre de la Nation, and its plea for tolerance caused the theatre to be closed and the whole company imprisoned; he was himself detained until after Thermidor. He served twice as minister of the interior and sat as a Director between the two terms. In 1798 he organised the first public exhibition of French industrial products, the ancestor of the international exhibitions, and afterwards gave himself to agronomy. He died in Paris in 1828.

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