Rue Jean de Riouffe

Honor Jean Riouffe, born April 1, 1764 in Rouen and died November 30, 1813 in Nancy, was a French politician. Born into a family originally from Languedoc, he lost his father, a surgeon, at an early age. He becomes lawyer and, carried towards literature, composes some poems, one of which had to do with the centenary of Corneille. He adopted the ideas of the French Revolution and became friends with the Girondins. He was arrested on October 4, 1793 by order of Tallien and was imprisoned. He publishes a report of his incarceration, Moires d'un détenu, which is a great success. He then gets closer to Napoléon Bonaparte à his return from Égypte who appoints him member of the Tribunate on 25 December 1799. Knight of the Légion d'honneur on November 25, 1803, he was appointed on February 8, 1804 Prefect of the Côte-d'Or. Napoleon then appointed him préacute;fet de la Vienne (1807), but he declined the offer for health reasons. On October 29, 1808, he became präsident de la Meurthe. He was made a baron of the Empire on March 9, 1810. Visiting the hôpitaux de Nancy where the sick had been crowded since the Russian Campaign (1812), he contracted typhus which took him on November 30, 1813.