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ANTOINE PIERRE BERRYER (179o-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 810 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTOINE See also:PIERRE See also:BERRYER (179o-1868)  , See also:French See also:advocate and See also:parliamentary orator, was the son of an eminent advocate and counsellor to the See also:parlement . He was educated at the See also:College de Juilly, on leaving which he adopted the profession of the See also:law; he was admitted advocate in 1811, and in the same See also:year he married . In the See also:great conflict of the See also:period between See also:Napoleon I. and the Bourbons, See also:Berryer, like his See also:father, was an ardent Legitimist; and in the See also:spring of 1815, at the opening of the See also:campaign of the See also:Hundred Days, he followed See also:Louis XVIII. to See also:Ghent as a volunteer . After the second restoration he distinguished himself as a courageous advocate of moderation in the treatment of the military adherents of the See also:emperor . He ' See R. le Maulde, Jeanne de See also:France, duchesse d'See also:Orleans et de See also:Berry (See also:Paris, 1883) . assisted his father and See also:Dupin in the unsuccessful See also:defence of See also:Marshal See also:Ney before the chamber of peers; and he undertook alone the defence of See also:General Cambronnt and General Debelle, procuring the acquittal of the former and the See also:pardon of the latter . By this See also:time he had a very large business as advocate, and was engaged on behalf of journalists in many See also:press prosecutions . He stood forward with a See also:noble See also:resolution to maintain the freedom of the press, and severely censured the rigorous See also:measures of the See also:police See also:department . In 1830, not See also:long before the fall of See also:Charles X., Berryer was elected a member of the chamber of deputies . He appeared there as the See also:champion of the See also:king and encouraged him in his reactionary policy . After the revolution of See also:July, when the See also:Legitimists withdrew in a See also:body, Berryer alone retained his seat as See also:deputy . He resisted, but unsuccessfully, the abolition of the hereditary See also:peerage .

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jury in press prosecutions, the See also:extension of municipal franchises and other liberal measures . In May 1832 he hastened from Paris to see the duchess of Berry on her landing in the See also:south of France for the purpose of organizing an insurrection in favour of her son, the See also:duke of See also:Bordeaux, since known as the See also:Comte de See also:Chambord . Berryer attempted to turn her from her purpose; and failing in this he set out for See also:Switzerland . He was, however, arrested, imprisoned and brought to trial as one of the insurgents . He was immediately acquitted . In the following year he pleaded for the liberation of the duchess, made a memorable speech in defence of See also:Chateaubriand, who was prosecuted for his violent attacks on the See also:government of Louis Philippe, and undertook the defence of several Legitimist journalists . Among the more noteworthy events of his subsequent career were his defence of Louis Napoleon after the ridiculous affair of See also:Boulogne, in 184o, and a visit to See also:England in See also:December 1843, for the purpose of formally acknowledging the pretendor, the duke of Bordeaux, then living in See also:London, as See also:Henry V. and lawful king of France . Berryer was an active member of the See also:National See also:Assembly convoked after the revolution of See also:February 1848, again visited the pretender, then at See also:Wiesbaden, and still fought in the old cause . This long parliamentary career was closed by a courageous protest against the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 . After a See also:lapse of twelve years, however, he appeared once more in his forsaken See also:field as a deputy to the See also:Corps Legislatif . Berryer was elected member of the French See also:Academy in 1854 . A visit paid by this famous orator to See also:Lord See also:Brougham in 1865 was made the occasion of a banquet given in his See also:honour by the benchers of the See also:Temple and of See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn .

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November 1868 he was removed by his own See also:desire from Paris to his See also:country seat at Augerville, and there he died on the 29th of the same See also:month .

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