Ulysse Trélat (politician)

Ulysse Trélat (13 November 1798 – 29 January 1879) was a French doctor and politician. He was briefly Minister of Public Works in 1848.

Ulysse Trélat
Portrait from Histoire de l'administration civile dans la province d'Auvergne et le département du Puy-de-Dôme, v4, 1897
Born	13 November 1798 Montargis, Loiret, France
Died	29 January 1879 Menton, Alpe-Maritimes, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Doctor and politician
Known for	Minister of Public Works

Life

Ulysse Trélat was born on 13 November 1798[lower-alpha 1] in Montargis, Loiret, the son of a notary.[2] Trélat became a military surgeon in 1813. He interned at Charenton, and became a doctor in medicine in 1821. Trélat was a doctor at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1838.[3]

Trélat was a founding member of the lodge Aide de toi, le ciel t'aidera. He was editor of the Patriote du Puy-de-Dôme. He became colonel in the National Guard, representative for Puy-de-Dôme in 1848 and vice-president of the Constituent Assembly. Trélat was Minister of Public Works from May to June 1848. He was a municipal counselor for Paris (district of the Panthéon) from 1871 to 1874.[3] He died on 29 January 1879 in Menton, Alpe-Maritimes.[2]

Family

Trélat married Marie Jeanne Louise Potin (d. 1838) on 30 December 1826. Their first child was Émile Trélat, born in Paris on 6 March 1821 and later legitimized, who went on to become a Deputy for the Seine from 1891 to 1898. They also had a daughter and two other sons, Alphonse and Ulysse (1828-1890). The latter became a distinguished surgeon and professor.[3]

References

Notes

1. Other sources give Trélat's year of birth as 1795, which may be more consistent with the date he became a surgeon.[1]

Citations

1. Pilbeam 2000, p. 226.
2. Robert & Couchy 1891, p. 412.
3. Schweitz 2001, p. 579.

Sources

• Pilbeam, Pamela M. (2000). French Socialists Before Marx: Workers, Women and the Social Question in France. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-2199-5. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
• Robert, Adolphe; Couchy, Gaston (1891). "TRÉLAT (Ulysse)". Dictionnaire des Parlementaires Français comprenant tous les membres des Assemblées Françaises et tous les Ministres Français depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889 (PDF). 5. Bourloton.
• Schweitz, Arlette (2001). "TRELAT Émile". Les parlementaires de la Seine sous la Troisième République. Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-85944-432-7. Retrieved 20 March 2014.