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Ulysse Trélat
Portrait from Histoire de l'administration civile dans la province d'Auvergne et le département du Puy-de-Dôme, v4, 1897
Born13 November 1798
Montargis, Loiret, France
Died29 January 1879
Menton, Alpe-Maritimes, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Doctor and politician
Known forMinister of Public Works

Ulysse Trélat (13 November 1798 – 29 January 1879) was a French doctor and politician. He was briefly Minister of Public Works in 1848.

Life[edit]

Ulysse Trélat was born on 13 November 1798[a] in Montargis, Loiret, the son of a notary.[2] Trélat became a military surgeon in 1813. He interned at Charenton, and became a doctor in medicine in 1821. Trélat was a doctor at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1838.[3]

Trélat was a founding member of the lodge Aide de toi, le ciel t'aidera. He was editor of the Patriote du Puy-de-Dôme. He became colonel in the National Guard, representative for Puy-de-Dôme in 1848 and vice-president of the Constituent Assembly. Trélat was Minister of Public Works from May to June 1848. He was a municipal counselor for Paris (district of the Panthéon) from 1871 to 1874.[3] He died on 29 January 1879 in Menton, Alpe-Maritimes.[2]

Family[edit]

Trélat married Marie Jeanne Louise Potin (d. 1838) on 30 December 1826. Their first child was Émile Trélat, born in Paris on 6 March 1821 and later legitimized, who went on to become a Deputy for the Seine from 1891 to 1898. They also had a daughter and two other sons, Alphonse and Ulysse (1828-1890). The latter became a distinguished surgeon and professor.[3]

References[edit]

Notes

  1. ^ Other sources give Trélat's year of birth as 1795, which may be more consistent with the date he became a surgeon.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ Pilbeam 2000, p. 226.
  2. ^ a b Robert & Couchy 1891, p. 412.
  3. ^ a b c Schweitz 2001, p. 579.

Sources

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysse_Tr%C3%A9lat_(politician)

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