Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAdrien de Lezay-Marnésia
French politician
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Place of Birth: Moutonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia
- Baron Paul Adrien François Marie de Lezay-Marnésia (born August 9, 1769 in Moutonne, died on 9 October 1814, in Haguenau) was a French prefect. His family had Spanish roots.
- Lezay-Marnésia met his wife Françoise de Briqueville in Forges-les-Eaux, in Normandy. Under the Directoire, he was forced to flee to Switzerland and returned to France on 17 May 1801.
- Napoleon I of France gave him a diplomatic mission to Hungary in 1803. He was prefect of the département Rhin-et-Moselle 1806-1810 in Koblenz. Appointed as prefect of the département Bas-Rhin on 12 February 1810, he organized the receipt of the Archduchess Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, wife of Napoleon, in March in Strasbourg.
- Thereafter, its director was focused on improving living conditions in rural areas.
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