Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint | |
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 A painting of de Jessaint | |
| Born | 26 April 1764 Jessains, Aube, France |
| Died | 8 January 1853 (aged 88) Château de Beaulieu, Trannes, Aube, France |
| Nationality | French |
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| Occupation | Prefect of Marne |
Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint (26 April 1764 – 8 January 1853) was a French aristocrat and civic administrator. Born into an aristocratic family, he was a classmate of Napoleon Bonaparte at the military academy at Brienne-le-Château. A moderate supporter of the 1789 French Revolution, de Jessaint was afterwards installed as mayor of Bar-sur-Aube, although he lost his mayorship after a purge of aristocrats in 1797. De Jessaint was appointed prefect of the Marne department in 1800, under Napoleon's consulship. He remained in this role until he requested retirement in 1838. He held the position through numerous regime changes and was the only pre-1828 prefect to stay in post after the 1830 July Revolution.