Étienne-Denis Pasquier

Étienne -Denis, duc Pasquier ( born April 22, 1767 in Paris, † July 5, 1862 ) was a French statesman.

Biography

Pasquier was the son of 1794 guillotined at the beginning of the French Revolution Parliament Council Étienne Pasquier. He was also related to the poet and jurist Étienne Pasquier ( 1529-1615 ). He studied law, and was also arrested during the French Revolution, but received by Robespierre's overthrow his freedom.

In 1806 he was Legal Adviser to the Conseil d' Etat, the State Council in 1810 ( conseiller d' État ) and soon after ( Préfet de Police ) Police Prefect of Paris. When the Allies' in Paris in 1814 and fall of Napoleon I, (see Napoleonic Wars ), he was responsible for the peace and security of the capital and was designed by Louis XVIII. appointed Director General of the bridge and Wegebaues.

During the rule of the Hundred Days he remained without a job, but was at the second return of Louis XVIII. , 9 July to 26 September 1815 Lord Privy Seal ( Minister of Justice ) in the Cabinet Talleyrand and at the same time Minister of the Interior and 1816 President of the Chamber of Peers.

1817 to 1818 he was Minister of Justice for the second time. In 1819 he was, however, under Decazes to the Foreign Minister, has had to resign in 1821 to Mathieu de Montmorency -Laval, as he was defeated in the Address debate.

Meanwhile the king had given him the peerage, and he practiced from now on in his excellent oratorical talent great influence on the First Chamber of, supported many arbitrary measures, and particularly the restriction of the press. On the other hand, however, he entered 1824 against the pension reduction and the Sakrilegiengesetz and contributed much to the overthrow of Prime Minister Jean -Baptiste de Villèle at.

Louis Philippe appointed him in 1830 as President of the Chamber of Peers, in which position he served especially for establishment of peace and attachment. The reward for proven loyalty and the services that he rendered to the Court as a secret adviser, was in 1837, he was appointed Chancellor of France in 1844 and his elevation to the ducal dignity.

With the February Revolution of 1848 he retired from the public scene. Since 1842 he was a member of the Académie française.

His ducal title passed to his adopted him great nephew Edme Armand Gaston, duc d' Audiffret over - Pasquier, who also politician and member of the Académie française was.