Jean-Jacques Lenoir-Laroche

Jean-Jacques Lenoir-Laroche, (Grenoble, April 29, 1749 - Paris, February 17, 1825) was a French lawyer, politician and journalist.

[1] Established in Paris, he worked for the newspaper Berlot, but was ousted for having defended Louis XVI in an article.

[3] He did not hesitate to express his enthusiasm for the Constitution of the Year III in the newspaper he edited, and this position earned him the appointment of Minister of Police under the Directory.

[2] He chaired the Commission on Individual Liberty, where he sometimes opposed Napoleon's demands.

After the Restoration, he was raised to the hereditary peerage as a count by Louis XVIII in 1817.