1. Pierre-Antoine Berryer was a French advocate and parliamentary orator.
14 Facts About Pierre-Antoine Berryer
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer was the twelfth member elected to occupy Seat Four of the Academie francaise in 1852.
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Berryer was born in Paris, the son of an eminent advocate and counselor to the parlement, a direct descendent from the first recorded members of the Berryer family originating from Jean de Candie, lord of Berryer in Bourges, in the person of Denis de Candie de la Berryer, royal commissioner of waters and forests of Domfront and Le Mans.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer assisted his father and Dupin in the unsuccessful defence of Marshal Ney before the chamber of peers.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer undertook the defence of General Cambronne and General Debelle, procuring the acquittal of the former and the pardon of the latter.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer stood forward with a noble resolution to maintain the freedom of the press, and he severely censured the rigorous measures of the police department.
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In 1830, not long before the fall of Charles X, Pierre-Antoine Berryer was elected to the chamber of deputies.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer appeared there as the champion of the king and encouraged him in his reactionary policy.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer unsuccessfully resisted the abolition of the hereditary peerage.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer advocated trial by jury in press prosecutions, the extension of municipal franchises, and other liberal measures.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer's purpose was to organize an insurrection in favour of her son, the Duke of Bordeaux, who has since become known as the Comte de Chambord.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer was an active member of the National Assembly convoked after the revolution of February 1848.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer again visited the pretender, then at Wiesbaden, and fought in the old cause.
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Pierre-Antoine Berryer was elected as a member of the Academie francaise in 1854.