Gregoire Mourre

Joseph-Henri-Louis-Gregoire, baron Mourre (1762-1832) was a top Magistrat French.

Born with Lorgues in Provence from a father Notary, Gregoire Mourre made studies of right to Aix-en-Provence, where it became lawyer. He benefitted then from the renewal of the elites caused by the French revolution to rise in the hierarchy of the revolutionary legal administration, until to have been briefly Minister for Justice by interim the shortly after the 9-Thermidor.

Under the Empire, it was named in 1800 Public prosecutor of the Court of Appeal of Paris, then president of the Civil court of the Court of appeal, station which it occupied of 1811 to 1815. Its refusal to lend oath to Louis XVIII during the First Restoration, then with Napoleon I {{er}} during the Hundred Days, enabled him to continue to occupy of high position under the Restauration, like Public prosecutor of the Court of appeal of 1815 to 1830.

It was created baron of the Empire by Napoleon I {{er}}. Its portrait, by Jules Quantin, flowering ash the gallery of the first floor of the Court of appeal with Paris.

He had married in 1796 with Vertus Louise Rosalie Doublet, girl of a trader, who brings to him in dowry grounds in Champagne. His/her Adelaide-Rosalie daughter married in 1819 an adviser at the royal court of Rouen, wire of a former lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, from which it had:

  • Adelaide-Rosalie, which married in 1819 an adviser at the royal court of Rouen, wire of a former lawyer to the Parliament of Paris.
  • Marie-Vincent, baron Mourre, named judge with the civil court of first authority of the the Seine in 1826, and which will finish its career as to advise at the imperial court of Napoleon III where it entered in 1856. This one had of Louise-Marthe Joliet a son, Henri-Xavier, baron Mourre, who were him-also lawyer in 1853, then substitute in 1856, and finally imperial Procureur in 1860, before giving up in 1872 its functions of magistrate the fall of the Second Empire.

Sources

  • Nathalie Petiteau, Elites and mobilities: the nobility of Empire at the XIXe century (1808-1914) , the Shop of the History, Paris, 1997.
  • Frederic d' Agay, Large notable of the First Empire , Editions of CNRS, Paris, 1988.

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