Michel-Louis-Étienne, Count Regnault de Saint Jean d’Angély

Michel-Louis-Étienne, Count Regnault de Saint Jean d’Angély (born Nov. 3, 1761, Saint-Fargeau, Puisaye, Fr.—died March 11, 1819, Paris) was an administrator under the French Directory and Napoleon I’s Empire. He persuaded Napoleon, at the end of the Hundred Days (1815), to abdicate for the second time. Elected to the States General in 1789, Regnault was an inconspicuous member of the National Constituent Assembly formed later that year. As an anti-Jacobin he was arrested (1793) during...