Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier (21 April 1767 – 5 July 1862) was a French statesman. In 1842 he was elected a member of the Académie française, and in the same year was created a duke by the July Monarchy.
Born in Paris as the descendant of a family traditionally connected with the bar association and the parlements of France (which included Étienne Pasquier), he was destined for the legal profession and was educated at the Collège de Juilly. He ...
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Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier (21 April 1767 – 5 July 1862) was a French statesman. In 1842 he was elected a member of the Académie française, and in the same year was created a duke by the July Monarchy.
Born in Paris as the descendant of a family traditionally connected with the bar association and the parlements of France (which included Étienne Pasquier), he was destined for the legal profession and was educated at the Collège de Juilly. He then became a counsellor of the parlement of Paris, and witnessed many of the incidents that marked the growing hostility between that body and Louis XVI of France in the years preceding 1789 and the outbreak of the French Revolution.
His views were those of a moderate reformer, determined to preserve the House of Bourbon in a renovated France; his memoirs depict in a favorable light the actions of his parlement (an institution soon to be abolished towards the end of the year 1789, under growing revolutionary pressures).
For some time, and...
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