Nicolas Frochot

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Nicolas Thérèse Benoît Frochot (20 March 1761 – 29 July 1828) was a senior French civil servant who became conseiller d'État and the first Prefect of the Seine. He was born in Dijon to a middle-class family; his father, Jean Étienne Frochot, later worked as an advocate to the Parliament of Dijon, and his mother was Antoinette Geneviève Charpy. In 1785 he married Denise Petit, daughter of a notary and royal provost at Aignay-le-Duc; through this marriage he became brother-in-law to Claude-Auguste Petit de Beauverger. Frochot was elected deputy of the Third Estate for the bailliage of Montagne à Châtillon in the Estates-General on 25 March 1789.