Louis Stanislas de Girardin

Louis Stanislas de Girardin (19 January 1762 – February 1827) was a French general, prefect, and deputy, who was close to Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte.

Having embraced a career as an army officer, he very quickly achieved the rank of captain in the regiment of Chartres while still very young.

During the Hundred Days, he sat in the House of Representatives, and fell in disgrace to the second restoration of the French Monarchy, yet received the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or a few years later, in 1819.

The independence of which he made evidence, especially on the occasion of the laws of exception proposed following the assassination of the duke of Berry, strongly led the department, which withdrew its-prefecture the April 3, 1820.

Free of any attached, Stanislas of Girardin became, from that moment, one of the heads and of the main speakers of the Liberal opposition; without ceased it arose a courageous voice against all laws of exception, in favor of the liberal measures, and distinguished himself in the gallery by the variety and strength of its knowledge.