Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély

[1] He was arrested after the revolution of 10 August, but succeeded in escaping, and during the Thermidorian Reaction which followed the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély was appointed administrator of the military hospitals in Paris.

[2] Regnaud was appointed Commissioner of Government of French-occupied Malta[3] and he was the editor of the propaganda newspaper Journal de Malte[2] before returning to France in November 1798.

[1] Under the Empire, he enjoyed the confidence of Napoleon Bonaparte, and was made councillor of state, president of election in the Conseil d'État, member of the Académie française, procureur général of the high court, and was created Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély in 1808.

[4] He was dismissed on the first Bourbon Restoration, but resumed his posts during the Hundred Days, and, after the battle of Waterloo, persuaded the Emperor Napoleon to abdicate.

His supposed memoirs, Les Souvenirs du Comte Regnault de St Jean d'Angély (Paris, 1817), are spurious.