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Claude-Pierre PAJOL (1772-1844) from a family from Nozeroy, very early on enlisted in the armies of the Revolution; he took part in numerous military campaigns. Count and Pair of the empire, he was retired in 1816. He became governor of Paris in 1830. By his energetic action, he prevented the return of the Bourbons to the throne of France during the Revolution of 1830. His son achieved this mausoleum at the apse of the church. The city has many books in its library and especially plans of its battles.

Jean-Nicolas DEMEUNIER (1751-1814) studied in Besançon and left for Paris at the age of 20. Man of letters, ethnologist, pioneer of social anthropology in France and politician, he was elected deputy of the Third Estate of Paris. He is at the origin of the 1st Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Napoleon made him Count of the Empire and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. He is buried in the Pantheon.

Joseph Angélique Sébastien REGNAULT (1776-1827) Son of a lawyer, polytechnician, took part in Bonaparte’s Egyptian expedition, along with 167

other scientists. He will be in charge of studying the silt of the Nile. He entered diplomacy and became consul in Cyprus. He died in Seîde (now Lebanon) in 1827.