Antoine-Marie Roederer

Antoine-Marie Roederer (14 May 1782 - 15 March 1865) was a French administrator and writer who served as Prefect of Trasimène under the First French Empire and was made a Peer of France by Louis-Philippe in 1845. In the Nobility of the First French Empire Roederer was created a Baron by Napoleon. Biography The son of Pierre Louis Roederer and his wife Ève Régine Louise Walburge de Guaita, Antoine-Marie was born on 14 May 1782 in Metz, where his father was a councillor to the parlement. Elected to the Estates General of 1789 in 1789,Pierre Louis Roederer played a prominent role during the Revolution and was an ally and supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire in 1799, becoming a leading member of the Bonapartist regime. Through the influence of his father, Antoine-Marie was then appointed an auditor of the Council of State and followed the former to Naples, where the elder Roederer was made Finance Minister for Joseph Bonaparte upon the French conquest of that kingdom. His father having followed Joseph Bonaparte to Spain in 1808, Antoine-Marie remained in Naples attached to the government of the new king, Joachim Murat.