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See also:ANDRE See also:MARIE See also:JEAN JACQUES See also:DUPIN (1783-1865)
, commonly called See also:Dupin the See also:Elder, See also:French See also:advocate, See also:president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative See also:Assembly, was See also:born at Varzy, in See also:Nievre, on the 1st of See also:February 1783
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He was educated by his See also:father, who was a lawyer of See also:eminence, and at an See also:early See also:age he became See also:principal clerk of an See also:attorney at See also:Paris
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On the See also:establishment of the Academie de Legislation he entered it as See also:pupil from Nievre
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In 1800 he was made advocate, and in 1802, when the See also:schools of See also:law were opened, he received successively the degrees of licentiate and See also:doctor from the new See also:faculty
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He was in 18io an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the See also:chair of law at Paris, and in 1811 he also failed to obtain the See also:office of advocate-See also:general at the See also:court of cassation
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About this See also:time he was added to the See also:commission charged with the See also:classification of the See also:laws of the See also:empire, and, after the interruption caused by the events of 1814 and 1815, was charged with the See also:sole care of that See also:great See also:work
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When he entered the chamber of deputies in 1815 he at once took an active See also:part in the debates as a member of the Liberal Opposition, and strenuously opposed the See also:election of the son of See also:Napoleon as See also:emperor after his father's See also:abdication
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At the election after the second restoration Dupin was not re-elected
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He defended with great intrepidity the principal See also:political victims of the reaction, among others, in See also:conjunction with See also:Nicolas See also:Berryer, See also:Marshal See also:Ney; and in See also:October 1815 boldly published a tractate entitled Libre Defense See also:des accuses
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In 1827 he was again elected a member of the chamber of deputies and in 183o he voted the address of the 221, and on the 28th of February he was in the streets exhorting the citizens to resistance
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At the end of 1832 he became president of the chamber, which office he held successively for eight years
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On See also:
This See also:attempt failed, but Dupin submitted to circumstances, and, retaining the office of procureurgeneral, his first See also:act was to decide that See also:justice should henceforth be rendered to the " name of the French See also:people." In 1849 he was elected a member of the Assembly, and became president of the principal See also:committee—that on legislation
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After the coup d'etat of the 2nd of See also:December 1851 he still retained his office of procureur-general, and did not resign it until effect was given to the decrees confiscating the See also:property of the See also:house of Orleans
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In 1857 he was offered his old office by the emperor, and accepted it, explaining his See also:acceptance in a discourse, a See also:sentence of which may be employed to describe his whole political career
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" I have always," he said, " belonged to See also:France and never to parties." He died on the 8th of See also:November 1865
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Among Dupin's See also:works, which are numerous, may be mentioned Principia See also:Juris See also:Civilis, 5 vols
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(1806); Memoires et plaidoyers de r8o6 au ter janvier 183o, in 20 vols.; and Memoires ou souvenirs du barreau, in 4 vols
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(1855–1857)
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His See also:brother, See also:FRANCOIS See also:PIERRE See also:
The See also:liberty with which he there treated the doctrines of the Fathers aroused ecclesiastical See also:prejudice, and the See also:archbishop of Paris condemned the work
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Although Du Pin consented to a retractation, the See also:book was suppressed in 1693; he was, however, allowed again to continue it on changing its See also:title by substituting nouvelle for universelle
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He was subsequently exiled to See also:Chatellerault as a Jansenist, but the sentence of banishment was repealed on a new retractation
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In 1718 he entered into a See also:correspondence with See also: |
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