Andre Jean Chabrol De Crouzol, count, a French statesman, born at Rioni, Nov. 16, 1771, died at Chabannes, Aug. 7, 1836. He took orders, and during the French revolution was imprisoned for refusing to preach in favor of the secularization of the clergy. He was set free in 1795, entered political life, and after holding several minor offices was made in 1812 intendant general in the Illyrian provinces. Returning to Paris in 1814, he was appointed councillor of state by Louis XVIII., and in November made prefect of the department of the Rhone, taking up his residence at Lyons. In 1816 he was led into measures of arbitrary severity by the supposed discovery of a conspiracy in the city; and he was recalled by the government, but soon after received the office of under secretary in the ministry of the interior. In 1820 he was elected a deputy from Puy-de-Dome, and in January, 1821, he was made director of registry and public lands. In 1824 he became a peer of France and was made minister of marine, distinguishing his administration of the office by many useful reforms.

He was minister of finance in the cabinet of Polignac in 1829, and retired from political life in May, 1830.