Nicolas Frochot

Nicolas Thérèse Benoît Frochot (20 March 1761 - 29 July 1828) was a senior French civil servant and conseiller d'État, as well as the first holder of the office of Prefect of the Seine.

Life Born in Dijon into a middle-class family, his father was Jean Etienne, who wore "the oratorian collet for seven years" before becoming advocate to the parliament of Dijon in 1754. Nicolas' mother was Antoinette Geneviève Charpy. In 1785 he married Denise Petit (1757–1832), daughter of a notary and royal provost at Aignay-le-Duc, who he succeeded. The marriage made him brother-in-law to Claude-Auguste Petit de Beauverger.

He was elected a deputy of the third estate for the bailliage of Montagne à Châtillon in the estates general on 25 March 1789.