Joseph Fiévée

Joseph Fiévée ( born April 9, 1767 in Paris, † May 9, 1839 in Paris) was a French journalist, writer and Member of Parliament.

Life

Fiévée was the son of a farmer and the brother of journalist Charles Frédéric Perlet ( 1759-1828 ).

During the Revolution and Reign of Terror was Fiévée supporters of the royalists and thus partisans by François Xavier de Montesquiou - FEZENSAC. During this time, wrote Fiévée his key novel La dot de Suzette, a great literary success.

In 1790 he married but his wife died already at the birth of the first child. End of the same year met Fiévée the writer Michel Théodore Leclercq with whom he contracted soon and his son reared together.

Through his friendship with the writer Jean -Louis Aubert Fiévée in 1800 editor of the newspaper Gazette de France. In 1803 he was arrested on the orders of Joseph Fouché and imprisoned in the Temple. Only when Pierre -Louis Roederer, a consultant Napoleon intervened with Fouché, Fiévée came free again.

Between 1804 and 1807 served as chief editor of the Journal Fiévée of débats. At the request of Napoleon Fiévée was raised to the peerage in 1810 and bestowed on him the title of " maître Legal Adviser ". They chose him in the Conseil d' État and three years later he was appointed prefect of the department of Nièvre. As Fiévée along with his son and Leclercq arrived in Nevers, there was a scandal.

Four weeks after his 72nd birthday Fiévée Joseph died on 9 May 1839 in Paris and found his final resting place beside Leclercq at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Honors

Works (selection)

• Six nouvelles. Perlet, Paris 1803 ( 2 vols )
• Suschens dowry or history of women of Seneterre (La dot de Suzette, ou mémoires de Mde de Senneterre, 1799). Wilmann Verlag, Bremen 1799.

• Les riqueurs you cloitre. Comédie en deux actes, en prose mêlée d' Ariettes. Édition de Boubers, Paris 1793.
• La maison à vendre. Paris 1789.
• Le dangereux badinage. Paris 1789.

• Nouvelle correspondance politique et administrative. Sautelet, Paris 1828th

• Jules Janin (ed.): oeuvre. Gosselin, Paris 1842.