Marc Antoine Bourdon de Vatry

Marc-Antoine Bourdon Vatry (born 24 November 1761 Longny-au-Perche - 22 April 1828 Paris, brother of Louis-François Bourdon, was a French Naval Minister.

He began in 1778 as a clerk in the offices of the navy at Brest, and as Expeditionary Secretary of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau in the United States (1781–1783). Back in France he was appointed director of the colonies at the Department of Navy (1792–1797). On 3 July 1799, he became Minister of Marine and remained until 1800. Under the Consulate and Empire, he was maritime prefect of Le Havre, prefect of Vaucluse, and Maine-et-Loire in 1809, Prefect of Genoa. This town erected a statue in memory of the work he had done in this port. During the Hundred Days, he was prefect of the Isère.

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Preceded by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord	Minister of the Navy and the Colonies 2 July 1799 - 22 November 1799	Succeeded by Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2009-8-4 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

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Name	Vatry, Marc Antoine Bourdon de
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Date of birth	1761
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Date of death	1828
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