Jean-Charles Persil
Jean-Charles Persil ([ ˌpɛʁˈsi ]; born October 13, 1785 in Condom , today Département Gers ; † July 10, 1870 in Antony , Département Seine ) was a French politician and lawyer. In the July monarchy he was a public prosecutor , member of parliament , minister and member of the Chambre des Pairs , and in the Second Empire he was a member of the Senate .
life and career
Entry into politics
Persil, the son of a businessman, studied law and received his doctorate in 1806. He wanted to teach law first. However, after his applications for chairs in Grenoble and Paris were unsuccessful, he worked as a lawyer in Paris. In this position, he twice represented the politician Nicolas Bavoux before the Chambre des Pairs .
While the Restoration was still in progress , he was elected to the Chambre des députés on June 23, 1830, a month before the July Revolution .
July Revolution
Persil was one of the first to criticize Jules de Polignac's government and protested against the Juliordonnanzen , which introduced press censorship and restricted the right to vote. On July 30, 1830 he was a member of a twelve-member delegation of MPs around André Dupin , who visited the Duke of Orléans in Neuilly and asked him to take over the reign of the kingdom.
July Monarchy
Persil also subsequently supported the establishment of the July monarchy. In the course of 1830 he became attorney general ( Procureur général ) in Paris. From July 1831 to November 1839 he was almost continuously a member of the Chamber of Deputies , then until the February Revolution of 1848 of the Chambre des Pairs .
In his dual function as a member of parliament and public prosecutor, Persil showed himself to be a rigorous representative of conservative positions and fought with exceptional severity against the democratic-liberal party, republican newspapers and actual or supposed conspirators. In the press he was persecuted by caricaturists he was portrayed as "Père scie" ("Father Saw", also interpretable as "Father Saw", homophonic to the pronunciation of his family name Persil) by caricaturists with an oversized nose shaped like a saw or sawtooth.
Louis-Philippe I personally selected him for the office of Minister of Justice, which he held from November 13, 1834 to February 22, 1836 and again from September 6, 1836 in the cabinet of Louis-Mathieu Molé . On April 15, 1837, he resigned because Molé refused to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies.
After the withdrawal from the ministerial post he was appointed Chairman of the Monetary Commission ( the Commission monnaies ) appointed. He was removed from this lucrative office at the beginning of 1839, but reinstated a few months later after showing his loyalty to the conservative party. As a result, Persil always supported the governments set up by Louis-Philippe as a member of parliament until 1848.
After 1848
After the February Revolution of 1848, Persil initially withdrew into private life. In 1852 he became a Councilor of State (Conseiller d'état) in the Conseil d'État . From November 5, 1864 until his death he was a member of the Senate .
On July 10, 1870, Jean-Charles Persil died at the age of 84 in his property in Antony , which he had acquired in 1820.
family
Jean-Charles Persil had two sons, Joseph-Eugène-Saint-Ange Persil (* 1808; † 1841) and Nicolas-Jules Persil (* 1811; † 1887), who also pursued careers as lawyers and parliamentarians.
Eugène Persil was elected to his seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 1839 after his father's appointment as peer . He died in the legislature in 1841 at the age of 34, after which his younger brother Jules took his place in the Chamber. Jules Persil was Deputy Public Prosecutor at the time and subsequently became Attorney General in Paris, like his father before. He remained a member of parliament until the February Revolution of 1848 and then withdrew from politics.
honors and awards
On April 24, 1845, Persil was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . In Antony , where he died , a street is named after him.
Works
- Régime hypothécaire, ou Commentaire sur le dix-huitième titre du livre troisième du Code Napoléon, relatif aux privilèges et hypothèques . P. Gueffier, Paris 1809 ( digitized on Gallica ).
- Questions about les privilèges et hypothèques, saisies immobilières et ordres . P. Gueffier, Paris 1812 (two volumes; full text of volume 1 and volume 2 in Gallica ).
- Questions about les privilèges et hypothèques, saisies immobilières et ordres . Second, corrected and considerably expanded edition. Nève, Paris 1820 (two volumes; full text of volume 1 and volume 2 in Gallica ).
literature
- Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français . Lav – Pla. Vol. IV. Bourloton, Paris 1891, p. 600–601 ( digitized on Gallica ).
Web links
- Literature by Jean-Charles Persil in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Anciens sénateurs Second Empire: PERSIL Jean-Charles . French Senate , accessed December 20, 2015 (French, with biographical information from Robert, Bourloton & Cougny, see section “ Literature ” above).
- ^ A b Gustave Vapereau : Dictionnaire universel des contemporains . Hachette , Paris 1870 (French, digitized in Gallica ).
- ↑ Maison bourgeoise dite maison Chénier. Association pour la Promotion du Patrimoine d'Antony (APPA), accessed on December 22, 2015 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Persil, Jean-Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, member of parliament, minister and member of the Chambre des Pairs in the July monarchy and senator in the Second Empire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Condom , Gers department |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1870 |
| Place of death | Antony , Seine department |