Félix Desportes

[1][2] He ensured diplomatic missions for the various regimes resulting from the French Revolution and played a decisive role during the reuniting of Geneva with France.

Under the consulate and then the French Empire, he was appointed Prefect of Haut-Rhin and received the title of Baron.

Elected member of the House of Representatives during the Hundred Days, where he sat among the liberals, he had to go into exile after the Second Restoration.

[4] He attended the military school of Gonesse and he studied law at the college of Lisieux in Paris.

During the Reign of Terror, he was arrested on April 23, 1794, and was saved by the coup d'état of the Thermidorian Reaction.

From 1816 to 1820, he sought refuge in German cities of Landau, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, and Hesse-Darmstadt in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

[1] From 1825 to 1834, he lived according to his revolutionary principles, sought public office, and in 1827, attended a liberal banquet in Colmar.

[2][4] Flore-Pierrette married Baron de Boucheporn, who was the Marshal of the Court of the King of Westphalia.

Henriette Deluzy-Desportes was born on June 1, 1813, on the rue de la Pépinière in Paris.

Lucile died of cholera in 1832, and initially the girl was taken in by Felix's brother Benjamin Desportes.

She received 1,500 francs to finish her education and went to Brixton Hill to learn to speak English.

She was a governess for the Praslin family, which resulted in the death of the duchess, suicide by the duke, and three months that she spent being interrogated until they let her go for lack of evidence.

He could no longer support Lucile consistently and he leveraged relationships to obtain a prefect retirement pension,[2] which he began receiving in 1834.