Claude Louis Petiet

Claude Louis Petiet (9 February 1749, Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or – 25 May 1806) was a Commissioner of war in 1778, elected to the Council of Elders in 1795, and was appointed Minister of War on 8 February 1796. He was dismissed on 14 July 1797 by the French Directory of Paul Barras, Jean-François Reubell and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux. Appointed to the State Council by Napoleon Bonaparte, he became steward of the army camp at Boulogne in 1805 and senator in 1806. Biography Constable in the company of Queen's, 20 October 1766. Subdelegation general stewardship of Britain, 1 September 1775 Commissioner of war (leased office 30 September 1778). Employed in Saint-Malo 26 December 1778 Acting Administrator dated 25 June 1779 to August 1780. Clerk Police Coast Guard Division of Brest, 8 March 1782. Employed at Rennes in 1788. Attorney General Trustee of Ille-et-Vilaine, June 1790. Commissary, military chief judge of the 13th Division, October 1791. Commissioner General of the Army of the Center, 31 March 1792, passed in the same capacity with the army of the Ardennes on 1 October 1792. Returned to the 13th Division, 31 October 1792. Employed at Lorient by representatives of the people in the West for supplying Lorient Belle-Ile, Port-Louis and Croix, 15 February 1793. Authorizing the Chief of Army coast, 25 February 1793. Authorizing the Chief of Brest and Côtes de Cherbourg on 1 May 1793. This service meets the 13th Division of 20 September 1793. Suspended by the representatives of the people and placed under arrest on 2 December 1793, he returned to his post by the same representatives on 29 December 1793. Authorizing the Chief of the Army of Sambre and Meuse, 15 April 1795. Spent in that capacity in the army coast of Brest, 19 June 1795. Member of the council of elders in October 1795. Member of Ille-et-Vilaine and Côte-d'Or. Minister of War, 8 February 1796 (he signed the decree appointing General Bonaparte in command of the army of Italy).