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BERRYER, ANTOINE PIERRE (179o-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 810 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERRYER, See also:ANTOINE See also:PIERRE (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, 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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