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See also: family, and was See also: born at Bausset in See also: Provence on the 1st of See also: April 1746
.
He was educated by the Oratorians at their See also: schools in See also: Toulon and See also: Marseilles, and then went to the university of See also: Aix; while a student there he published his first two See also: works, Observations sur Emile in 1763 and See also: Des Prejuges in 1764
.
In 1765 he became an avocat at the See also: parlement of Aix, and soon obtained so See also: great a reputation that he was instructed by the duc de Choiseul in 1770 to draw up the decree authorizing the See also: marriage of Protestants
.
From 1778 to 1781 he was one of the four assessors or administrators of Provence
.
In See also: November 1793, after the republic had been proclaimed, he came to See also: Paris and was thrown into prison, being the See also: brother-in-See also: law of See also: Joseph See also: Jerome Simeon, the See also: leader of the Federalists in Provence
.
He was soon removed through the influence of B. de V
.
Barere to a maison de saute, where he remained till the fall of Robespierre
.
On being released he practised as a lawyer in Paris; and in 1795 he was elected by the capital to the Conseil des Anciens, becoming a leader of the moderate party opposed to the See also: directory
.
As a leader of the moderates he was proscribed at the coup d'etat of Fructidor, but, unlike General See also: Charles
See also: Pichegru and the See also: marquis de Barbe-Marbois, he managed to escape to See also: Switzerland, and did not return till See also: Bonaparte became First See also: Consul
.
Bonaparte made him a conseiller d'etat in r800, and then charged him, with F, D
.
See also: Tronchet, See also: Bigot de Preameneu, and Jacques de Maleville, to draw up the See also: Code See also: Civil
.
Of this commission he was the most industrious member, and many of the most important titles, notably those on marriage and heirship, are his See also: work
.
In 18or he was placed in See also: charge of the department of cultes or public worship, and in that capacity had the chief share in See also: drawing up the provisions of the Concordat
.
In 1803 he became a member of the Institute, in 1804 See also: minister of public worship, and in 1805 a knight See also: grand See also: cross of the See also: Legion of Honour
.
He soon after became totally
See also: blind; and after an operation he died at Paris on the 25th of See also: August 1807
.
The work of Portalis appears in the Code See also: Napoleon, but see also See also: Frederick Portalis's Documents, See also: rap ports, et travaux inedits stir le Code Civil (1844) and Sur le Concordat (1845); for his See also: life, see the biography in the edition of his Oeuvres by F
.
Portalis (1823) and Rene Lavolee, Portalis, sa See also: vie et ses oeuvres, (Paris, 1869)
.
His son, JOSEPH See also: MARIE PORTALIS (1778-1858), entered the See also: diplomatic service, and obtaining the favour of See also: Louis XVIII. filled many important offices
.
He was under-secretary of
See also: state for the See also: ministry of See also: justice, first president of the See also: court of caseation, minister for See also: foreign affairs, and in 1851 a member of the senate
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