Louis-Félix Roux

Louis Félix Roux, (known as ‘Roux de la Haute-Marne’) (25 October 1753, Vichy - 22 September 1817, Huy) was a French politician.

Roux was son of Robert Roux, a schoolmaster, and Marie Petit. Roux learned Latin with the parish priest and then obtained a scholarship to study in a Parisian college. He later took holy orders and in 1786 became parish priest of Vignory. He supported the French Revolution and took the oath for the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, following which in 1791 he was named Episcopal Vicar of the Haute-Marne. Massieu accused him of arbitrary measures. The Jacobin club considered this accusation and dismissed it. In 1795 during the insurrections of Germinal and Prairial he supported state repression and took his revenge on Massieu by bringing accusations against him. On April 4, 1795 he was elected to the Committee of Public Safety and remained there for three months, in charge of trade and subsistence.

After the royalist insurrection of 13 Vendémiaire, he was elected to the short-lived Commission of Five, charged with bringing forward measures of public safety against the royalists. On October 15, 1795 Roux was elected to the Council of Five Hundred by the Ardennes and Nord. He sat for the duration of the Directory and was a loyal supporter of the regime. Apart from his elected positions, in 1799 he worked at the Ministry of the Interior under Nicolas Marie Quinette and after 18th Brumaire he joined the Commission on Émigrés. From 1800 to 1802 Joseph Fouché employed him as director of the archives of the Ministry of Police. Unemployed after Fouché's resignation, in 1804 he became a tax collector in Dinant in the department of Sambre-et-Meuse.

His political career was briefly revived in 1815, during the Hundred Days, when he was appointed subprefect of Laon, but the Bourbon restoration saw him banished from France as a regicide in January 1816. In March he left France and settled in Huy, in present day Belgium. He died a year later at the age of 64.