Théophile Bidard de la Noë (11 March 1804 – 23 October 1877) was a French politician and law professor, although he might be most remembered as the employer and principal witness for the prosecution against serial killer

Hélène Jégado Hélène Jégado (1803 – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years. After an initial period of activity, between 1833 and ...

in 1851. Bidard was born in

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

in 1804. He sat in the Constituent Assembly from 1848 to 1849 as a moderate republican and in the National Assembly from 1871 to 1876 as a member of the Orléanist parliamentary group, ''Centre droit''. He served as

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of Rennes.

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1804 births 1877 deaths Moderate Republicans (France) Orléanists Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly Members of the National Assembly (1871) Crime witnesses Mayors of Rennes Academic staff of the University of Rennes Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur {{France-law-bio-stub