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Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
Pelet de la Lozère, Auditor (1806) by his fellow-auditor Frédéric-Christophe d'Houdetot
Born	Privat Joseph Claramont, comte Pelet de la Lozère (1785-07-12)12 July 1785 Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, France
Died	9 February 1871(1871-02-09) (aged 85) Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Lawyer, politician

Privat Joseph Claramont, comte Pelet de la Lozère (12 July 1785 – 9 February 1871) was a French administrator and politician. He served under the regime of Napoleon, and as a prefect under the Bourbon Restoration. He was a Deputy from 1827 until 1837, when he was made a Peer of France. He was Minister of Education in 1836 and Minister of Finance in 1840.

Early years

Privat Joseph Claramont, Count Pelet de la Lozère, was born on 12 July 1785 in Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard. He was the oldest son of Jean Pelet de la Lozère (1759-1842), a deputy to the French National Convention, and of Marie Antoinette Rodier. Joseph Pelet joined the administration in the year VIII as a supernumerary at the Ministry of Interior. He was appointed auditor to the Council of State and Director of the Crown Forests in 1806. He was made Master of Requests in 1811 and administrator of the domaine extraordinaire in 1814.

Bourbon Restoration

During the Bourbon Restoration Pelet served from 24 February 1819 until 1823 as Prefect of Loir-et-Cher. He was dismissed in 1823 by Jacques-Joseph Corbière due to suspicion of being a liberal, and perhaps also for being a Protestant. On 17 November 1827 he was elected deputy for the first district of Loir-et-Cher (Blois) and for the 2nd district of Loir-et-Cher (Vendôme). He chose to represent Blois. He took his seat on the center-left, and voted against the cabinet of Jules de Polignac. Pelet was reelected for Blois on 12 July 1830.

July monarchy

Pelet strongly supported the July Monarchy of 1830. He was reelected to Blois on 5 July 1831 and again on 21 June 1834. After the Cabinet of Édouard Adolphe Mortier was dissolved in February 1835 due to internal divisions, Marshal Soult was invited to form a new cabinet. He offered a post to Pelet, but Soult's proposed cabinet was blocked by the personal influence of king Louis Philippe.

Pelet was appointed Minister of Public Education on 22 February 1836 in the First cabinet of Adolphe Thiers. The Pelet Law encouraged communes to have at least one primary school for girls. The Thiers cabinet was dissolved on 6 September 1836 due to a serious disagreement between the king and his advisers over policy regarding Spain. On leaving office Pelet became a leading member of the opposition to the government of Louis-Mathieu Molé. In October 1837 he was promoted to the Chamber of Peers.

As a peer Pelet supported the regime, but sometimes expressed independent views. The Molé government fell in April 1839, followed by a prolonged ministerial crisis. On 1 March 1840 Thiers was again called upon to form a cabinet from the center-left, and Pelet de la Lozère was given the Finance portfolio. On 21 October 1840 he resigned due to a crisis in Eastern affairs. He remained in the House of Peers until the February Revolution of 1848 returned him to private life.

Joseph Pelet de la Lozère died on 9 February 1871 in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, aged 85.

Works

Précis de l'histoire des Etats-Unis (1840)

References

Citations

^ PELET (Privat Joseph Claramont, dit de la Lozère): IFE.
^ Robert & Couchy 1891.

Sources

"PELET (Privat Joseph Claramont, dit de la Lozère)". IFE Service d'histoire de l'éducation. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
Robert, Adolphe; Couchy, Gaston (1891). "PELET DE LA LOZÈRE (Privat Joseph Claramont)". Dictionnaire des Parlementaires Français comprenant tous les membres des Assemblées Françaises et tous les Ministres Français depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889. Bourloton. Retrieved 2014-03-25.

v t e French Provisional Government of 1815 (22 June 1815 to 7 July 1815)
Members	Joseph Fouché (President) Lazare Carnot Paul Grenier Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt Nicolas Marie Quinette	Joseph Fouché
Foreign Affairs	Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon
Interior	Claude-Marie Carnot
Police	Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
Justice	Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe
Finance	Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin
Treasury	Nicolas François, Count Mollien
Navy and Colonies	Denis Decrès
War	Louis-Nicolas Davout
Preceded by French government of the Hundred Days • Followed by Ministry of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

v t e First cabinet of Adolphe Thiers (22 February 1836 to 6 September 1836)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
President of the council	Adolphe Thiers	Adolphe Thiers
Foreign Affairs	Adolphe Thiers
Interior	Camille de Montalivet
Justice and Religious Affairs	Paul Jean Pierre Sauzet
War	Nicolas Joseph Maison
Finance	Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout
Navy and Colonies	Guy-Victor Duperré
Public Education	Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
Commerce and Public Works	Hippolyte Passy

v t e Second cabinet of Adolphe Thiers (1 March 1840 to 29 October 1840)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
President of the council	Adolphe Thiers	Adolphe Thiers
Foreign Affairs	Adolphe Thiers
Interior	Charles de Rémusat Léon de Maleville (Sub-secretary of State)
Justice and Religious Affairs	Alexandre-François Vivien
War	Amédée Despans-Cubières
Finance	Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
Navy and Colonies	Albin Roussin
Public Education	Victor Cousin
Public Works	Hippolyte François Jaubert
Agriculture and Commerce	Alexandre Goüin Adolphe Billault (Sub-secretary of State)

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