Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia

Baron Paul Adrien François Marie de Lezay-Marnésia (born August 9, 1769, in Moutonne, died on 9 October 1814, in Haguenau) was a French prefect.

[1] When his father and younger brother went to the United States in 1790, Lezay-Marnésia stayed in Franche-Comté with his mother.

In December 1791, he left to study diplomacy at the University of Groningen; he met his father and brother in Paris in August 1792 and settled with them in the family château in Saint-Julien.

Appointed as prefect of the département Bas-Rhin on 12 February 1810, he organized the receipt of the Archduchess Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, wife of Napoleon, in March in Strasbourg.

Thereafter, its director was focused on improving living conditions in rural areas.