1. Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir had broad responsibility for maintaining public order, reducing dirt and disease and ensuring that the population received adequate supplies of food.
38 Facts About Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir introduced many reforms into the administration of the city.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir's family had made its fortune under Louis XIV in the silk trade, then moved into the Paris robe.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir's father was a lieutenant particulier in the Chatelet.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir studied at the College Louis-le-Grand and the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir then became a traditional servant of the king.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir entered the Chatelet and was promoted through the three grades.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir was appointed adviser to the Chatelet in 1752, became a special lieutenant in 1754 and criminal lieutenant in 1759.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir served in Rennes on the royal commission that investigated the Chalotais affair.
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When Louis XVI came to the throne Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir succeeded Anne Robert Jacques Turgot as intendent at Limoges.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir objected when Turgot as controller general announced that the extremely liberal grain policies of the 1760s were to be restored without consulting Lenoir.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir's police secured property and public places, monitored authors and their publications, and enforced physical and moral values on the poor.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir remained loyal to his two protectors, Sartine and Jean-Frederic Phelypeaux, Count of Maurepas, and drew the hostility of their enemies such as Turgot and Necker.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir helped the Foreign Minister, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, monitor the opinion of the public and of his political enemies.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir claimed that he gained more useful information from this salon than from all his inspectors and other contacts.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir served, on days she entertained, a tea the cost of which the police paid.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir was head of the Paris police at the same time that Benjamin Franklin arrived in Paris in 1776 to advocate for the cause of American independence.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir gathered information on American correspondence, for example via mail interception, and followed British personnel that were interested in the American cause.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir considered that Turgot's instructions to maintain security yet "not to meddle with bread" had been contradictory.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir instituted regular checks on prices and encouraged citizens to complain of excess prices.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir was a friend of Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Controller General of Finance, who consulted him on matters related to provisioning the city and its financial administration.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir was chief administrator of the Hopital General of Paris, and the driving force behind the "new hospitals" where the aim was to help the patient recover, as opposed to the traditional hospitals of the religious orders where the aim was to save the patient's soul.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir subsidized a competition for the best memoir on the treatment of rabies.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir appointed the first provosts to inspect the places where medicines were compounded.
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In 1780 Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir made the pharmacist Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux the "salubrity inspector" of Paris.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir ensured that many improvements were made to security, lighting, fire control and public assistance in the city He founded the Mont-de-Piete pawnbroking institution and took measures against begging, gambling and prostitution.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir's appointment resulted in a slackening in the enforcement of restrictions against public entertainment.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir had a more tolerant attitude toward the theaters on the boulevard and at the fairs, since he regarded them as a necessary and comparatively innocuous amusement for the continually increasing working-class population of the capital.
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In 1778 Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir published an Ordonnance that imposed harsher fines on women who solicited and those who rented rooms to prostitutes.
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In 1777 Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir created the Bureau de la filature near the Porte Saint-Denis, in an area where cloth was manufactured.
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In 1777 Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir accepted a suggestion from the Dutch ambassador and allowed the burial of French Protestants in the courtyard of the cemetery for foreign Protestants.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir became a conseiller ordinaire in the Council of State.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir was appointed king's librarian in 1785 and chairman of the Finance Commission in 1787.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir went into exile in 1792 after the outbreak of the French Revolution, and lived in Switzerland and then for a long time in Vienna.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir returned to France after the Consulate took power and retired to the countryside near Paris on a pension from the Mont-de-Piete.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir worked on a treatise that would defend his actions against the revolutionaries, and those of other police officials since 1667.
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Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir began writing in 1790, and seems to have worked on it intermittently for the remainder of his life.
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Jean Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir died on 17 November 1807 in Crosne, in what is the department of Essonne, aged 74.