Felix Trepont

Félix Trépont was born June 6, 1863. A barrister with the Paris Appellate Court, he was successively Sub-Prefect of Saint-Pol (1892) and of Dôle (1896), General Secretary of the Aisne department (1898), Prefect of Jura (1901), of Loiret (1905), of Pas-de-Calais (1907) and of Nord (1909). He was taken hostage along with the bishop, mayor, and rector, upon the Germans’ entry into Lille on October 13, 1914. Incarcerated on February 18, 1915, in the Citadel with his prefecture’s Secretary General and a division chief, for reproduction and distribution of French newspaper articles, he was deported to Germany with other Lille hostages. Repatriated in January 1916, he took up his functions in residence in Dunkirk. He retired in 1923. He was the president of the Prefectural Administration Association from 1911 to 1919.