Ulysse Trélat (politician)
{{Short description|French medical doctor and politician}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ulysse Trélat
| image = Trelat, Ulysse.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Portrait from Histoire de l'administration civile dans la province d'Auvergne et le département du Puy-de-Dôme, v4, 1897
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 13 November 1798
| birth_place = Montargis, Loiret, France
| death_date = 29 January 1879
| death_place = Menton, Alpe-Maritimes, France
| nationality = French
| other_names =
| occupation = Doctor and politician
| known_for = Minister of Public Works
}}
Ulysse Trélat (13 November 1798 – 29 January 1879) was a French medical doctor and politician. He was briefly Minister of Public Works in 1848.
Life
Ulysse Trélat was born on 13 November 1798{{efn|Other sources give Trélat's year of birth as 1795, which may be more consistent with the date he became a surgeon.{{sfn|Pilbeam|2000|p=226}} }} in Montargis, Loiret, the son of a notary.{{sfn|Robert|Couchy|1891|p=412}}
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.{{sfn|Schweitz|2001|p=579}}
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.{{sfn|Schweitz|2001|p=579}}
He died on 29 January 1879 in Menton, Alpe-Maritimes.{{sfn|Robert|Couchy|1891|p=412}}
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.{{sfn|Schweitz|2001|p=579}}
References
Notes
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Citations
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Sources
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- {{cite book|last=Pilbeam|first=Pamela M.|title=French Socialists Before Marx: Workers, Women and the Social Question in France
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qw1zemDEhuMC&pg=PA226|access-date=20 March 2014
|year=2000|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0-7735-2199-5}}
- {{cite book|last1=Robert|first1=Adolphe|last2=Couchy|first2=Gaston
|title=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
|url=http://www.assembleenationale.fr/histoire/biographies/1789-1889/Tome_5/TREHOUART_TRONCHON.PDF|chapter=TRÉLAT (Ulysse)|volume=5
|year=1891|publisher=Bourloton}}
- {{cite book|last=Schweitz|first=Arlette|title=Les parlementaires de la Seine sous la Troisième République
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BR2MUSf6OhIC&pg=PA579|access-date=20 March 2014
|year=2001|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|isbn=978-2-85944-432-7|chapter=TRELAT Émile}}
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Category:People from Montargis
Category:Politicians from Centre-Val de Loire
Category:Moderate Republicans (France)
Category:Ministers of public works of France
Category:Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly