JAUCOURT, ARNAIL FRANcOIS, MARQUIS DE 1852), French politician, was born on Nov. 14, 1757 at Tournon (Seine-et-Marne). He adopted revolutionary ideas and became colonel of his regiment (Conde's). In the Assembly, in which he represented Seine-et-Marne, his views were too moderate for his colleagues and he resigned in 1792 and was arrested on suspicion of being a reactionary. Mme de Stael procured his release just before the September massacres. He accompanied Talleyrand to England, returning after the execution of Louis XVI. Under the consulate he was for some time president of the tribunate. In
1803 he entered the senate, and in 1804 was attached to the house hold of Joseph Bonaparte. His imperialist views cooled, and at the Restoration he became minister of state and a peer of France. At the second Restoration he was for a brief period minister of marine. He devoted himself to the Protestant interest in France. A member of the upper house throughout the reign of Louis Philippe, he was driven into private life by the establishment of the Second Republic, but lived to rally to the government of Louis Napoleon, dying in Paris on Feb. 5, 1852.