Legitimist parliamentary leader and orator who voted to depose the president at the 10th arrondissement town hall in the coup of 1851
Born in Paris in 1790, the son of an eminent advocate, he was a lifelong Legitimist: he followed Louis XVIII to Ghent in the Hundred Days and under the Restoration helped defend Marshal Ney. Elected deputy in 1830, he alone of the Legitimists kept his seat after the July Revolution and fought the July Monarchy from it. In 1843 he went to London to acknowledge the Count of Chambord as "Henri V". Elected for the Bouches-du-Rhône in 1848 and 1849, he campaigned with the Right for monarchy, and in the coup of 2 December 1851 he joined the representatives at the 10th arrondissement town hall who voted to depose the Prince-President. He was elected to the Académie française in 1852 and returned as an opposition deputy for Marseille in 1863.
Activities and affiliations
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1811–1868
Law and justice
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1830–1851
France state institutionsDeputy and representativeMain
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1863–1868
France state institutionsMember of the Corps législatif
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1811Admitted to the bar
- 1815Defence of Marshal Ney
- 1830–1848Member of the Chamber of Deputies
- 1848–1851Representative for the Bouches-du-Rhône in the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies
- 1852Elected to the Académie française
- 1863–1868Deputy for the Bouches-du-Rhône in the Corps législatif