Claude Louis Petiet

He was dismissed on 14 July 1797 by the French Directory of Paul Barras, Jean-François Reubell and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux.

Fifty years after the death of the surveyor-general on 13 February 1854, Sainte-Beuve wrote in his Lectures on Monday: Amidst the scandals that characterize the administration of the Directory, the Ministry Petiet was an honorable exception.

This minister, a good and deserving man, strove to keep proper accounts and after a fiscal year, he submitted the complete picture of its operations to the judgment of Legislative Council and the public; He did without hesitation and with sincerityAt the time of the coup d'état Fructidor, he warned his friends in the passage of Hoche's troops within the "constitutional radius" no troops should cross without the permission of the legislature.

In a note to General Regnier, Moreau says: Aubert de Bayet no longer minister of war, the commissioner who replaces Petiet.

I know he is a man of great talent.In his memoires, his son Auguste-Louis wrote: I delivered my dispatches to the Emperor asking for my name, I replied through my tears, remembering he had probably seen me at Austerlitz, Napoleon again point of the question he had posed.