See also:ETIENNE See also:DENIS See also:PASQUIER
, Dunn (1767-1862), See also:French statesman, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:April 1767
.
Descended from a See also:family which had See also:long been distinguished at the See also:bar and in connexion with the parlements of See also:France, he was destined for the legal profession and was educated at the See also:college of Juilly
.
He then became a counsellor of the See also:parlement of See also:Paris, and witnessed many of the incidents that marked the growing hostility between that See also:body and See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI. in the years preceding the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789
.
His views
were those of a moderate reformer, who desired to renovate but not to end the institutions of the old See also:monarchy; and his See also:memoirs set forth in a favourable See also:light the actions of that parlement, the existence of which was soon to be terminated amid the See also:political storms of the See also:close of the See also:year 1789
.
For some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and especially during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), See also:Pasquier remained in obscurity; but this did not See also:save him from See also:arrest in the year 1794
.
He was thrown into See also:prison shortly before the coup d'etat of See also:Thermidor (See also:July 1794) which overthrew See also:Robespierre
.
In the reaction in favour of See also:ordinary See also:government which ensued Pasquier regained his See also:liberty and his estates
.
He did not re-enter the public service until the See also:period of the See also:Empire, when the See also:arch-See also:chancellor See also:Cambaceres used his See also:influence with See also:Napoleon to procure for him the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of " maitre See also:des requetes " to the See also:council of See also:state
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In 1809 he became See also:baron of the French Empire, and in See also:February 1810 counsellor of state
.
Napoleon in 1810 made him See also:prefect of See also:police
.
The See also:chief event which ruffled the course of his See also:life at that time was the See also:strange See also:conspiracy of the republican See also:general See also:Malet (Oct
.
1812), who, giving out that Napoleon had perished in See also:Russia, managed to surprise and See also:capture some of the ministers and other authorities at Paris, among them Pasquier
.
The collapse of this bold See also:attempt enabled him, however, speedily to regain his liberty
.
When Napoleon abdicated in April 1814 Pasquier continued to exercise his functions for a few days in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to preserve order, and then resigned the prefecture of police, whereupon Louis XVIII. allotted to him the See also:control of roads and See also:bridges
.
He took no See also:share in the imperial restoration at the time of the See also:Hundred Days (1815), and after the second entry of Louis XVIII. into Paris he became See also:minister of the interior, but finding it impossible to See also:work with the hot-headed royalists of the Chamber of Deputies (La Cliambre introuvable), he resigned office
.
Under the more moderate ministers of succeeding years he again held various appointments, but refused to join the reactionary cabinets of the close of the reign of See also:Charles X
.
After the July Revolution (1830) he became See also:president of the Chamber of Peers —a See also:post which he held through the whole of the reign of Louis Philippe (183o-1848)
.
In 1842 he was elected a member of the French See also:Academy, and in the same year was created a See also:duke
.
After the overthrow of Louis Philippe in February 1848, Pasquier retired from active life and set to work to compile the notes and reminiscences of his long and active career
.
He died in 1862
.
See Memoires du Chancelier Pasquier (6 vols., Paris, 1893—1895; partly translated into See also:English, 4 vols., See also:London, 1893—1894)
.
Also L. de Vieilcastel, Histoire de la Restauration, vols. i.–iv
.
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