Nicolas Frochot

Nicolas Thérèse Benoît Frochot (20 March 1761 - 29 July 1828) was a senior French civil servant and conseiller d'État, as well as the first holder of the office of Prefect of the Seine.

Frochot family tomb at the cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

Life

Born in Dijon into a middle-class family, his father was Jean Etienne, who wore "the oratorian collet for seven years"^[1] before becoming advocate to the parliament of Dijon in 1754. Nicolas' mother was Antoinette Geneviève Charpy.^[2] In 1785 he married Denise Petit (1757–1832), daughter of a notary and royal provost at Aignay-le-Duc, who he succeeded. The marriage made him brother-in-law to Claude-Auguste Petit de Beauverger.

He was elected a deputy of the third estate for the bailliage of Montagne à Châtillon in the estates general on 25 March 1789.