Jacques Judges of Borie

Jacques Judges of Borie (1702 - 1779) Lawyer of the King in Présidial, First Mayor of Limoges

Born in Limoges in 1702, of a former family which gave to Limoges Jurisconsulte S and magistrates enlightened and just. He married of Bordeaux, Catherine Pétronille of Borde. She died young person. In spite of its occupations, it devoted itself, with the education of his children.

Lawyer of the King in Présidial of Limoges

Jean-Baptiste Judges, his father, is to advise in Présidial of Limoges and lord of important strongholds.

One of his/her Joseph parents Judges Saint Martin's day, chair Company of Agriculture, sciences and arts of Limoges will be his/her colleague three years in Présidial where it will occupy the seat to advise.

It makes its studies with the college of the Jesuits. At twenty years, it enters to the bar. It will be noticed by Mister of Verdier, lawyer of the King, who will become bishop of Angouleme. Eager to leave its office in good hands, it chooses young lawyer to succeed it.

Candidate for this load, Jacques Juge of Borie undergoes an examination in front of the Parlement of Bordeaux and must justify of the three requirements to his approval: its orthodoxy, its morality, its capacity. He satisfies his inspectors and he is approved by the Parliament, before which he lends oath.

June 1728, an official audience, chaired by Mr. de Douhet, chair Court Présidiale and Sénéchale. is held in Présidial of Limoges for the installation of Jacques Juge of Borie.

Installed in its functions at 26 years, it very quickly will appear a magistrate of great value. He knows perfectly the old ordinances, the Large Usual one, the Juris Corpus and jurisprudence. He is characterized by his incomparable science, his satisfying, his deep integrity, the rise and the nobility of his legal language.

By an exceptional favor and at the request of its fellow-citizens, the Parliament authorizes it to cumulate its occupation of Lawyer of the King and that of lawyer of the private individuals, granting the right of audience to him for those in the causes where it is not committed.

Jacques Juge of Borie had a reputation of good speaker. Its speeches always have the same vein. The exorde is borrowed from a maxim of a classic author or a crowned text, confirmed by quotations drawn from antiquity. The discussion is flowered of reflections morals, where the uprightness of its judgment appears, the purity of its conscience, the rise in its spirit.

But the truest titles which are appropriate to him are certainly its legal work, which corresponds to its precise nature and to extended from its scholarship. Two memories written by him were preserved. The first, in 1743, milked with a lawsuit opposing in front of Présidial, lord de Lacoré, priest, senior of the chapter official and general vicar of the diocese the Holy ones and the consorts Saint-Viance of Sazeirat, the second addressed to Aguesseau, Ministre for Justice in 1749. It inspired the “Jurisprudence of the Parliament of Bordeaux” published by Salviat in 1824.

Montesquieu communicates its stops regularly to him so that it annotates them. Unanimously recognized science encourages the members of the Parliament of Bordeaux to act in the same way.

In 1775, it yields to his/her son, Joseph-Jacques Juge of Borie, lord of the Winch, the load of Lawyer of the King in Présidial which it occupied during forty seven years.

Consul of Limoges

It was appointed consul of Limoges in 1732, then in 1739. He is elected First Consul with the title of governor in 1763 and he will be renewed in this load on several occasions. March 19th, 1768, it will be named by the King, first mayor of Limoges and will be maintained in 1774.

It restores finances of the city which it finds involved in debt enough at the point to be able to pay the right to elect its municipal officers. It leans with much charity on the health of its fellow-citizens and improves the communal old people's home.

It deals with the youth of the city, tormented by the revolutionary spirit since 1772, which causes a certain fear by its turbulance with the inhabitants. To limit these disorders, it takes measures with the Lieutenant gnéral Mr. de Roulhac to light the streets with lanterns, to carry out night rounds…

The general lieutenant of Aisne to the service of Turgot written of him, in a letter dated March 15th, 1776: “What you mark me of your projects of retirement makes me truly sorrow. I agree of all the sacrifices that you have aits to deliver to you to the businesses of the city, but your lights are necessary to your fellow-citizens and please continue them to them some time. ”

October 8th, 1779, after two days of fever, Jacques Judges Borie, always mayor of the city, returns his noble soul to God, in his house of the street Gaignolle. It is buried with the cemetery of Arênes.

At the time of its funerals it accepted an exceptional homage of all the city. The intendant of Groin expresses him thus of addressing to the inhabitants of Limoges: “You lost a as advisable chief by the extent of its lights as by its satisfying and its probity. ” President Mallavergne will say later: “It was a man of the olden days who did not know other distractions only the study, other joys that the achievement of its duty. ” Finally Turgot remembers his/her old friend and writing with his son: " I liked and I respected Mister your father as much as it deserved to be it and I knew the truth of his attachment for me. Its loss is a public misfortune. Its memory will be invaluable with all the decent people who knew it. It will be always expensive to me. It must make your consolation."

The weapons of the family are of azure to a hand driving of the sinistral side, holding a sword out of stake, which supports the plague of a balance with two money basins.

According to the family notes of its back grandson, Ernest Baker of Flaix, (1824 - 1904), Economist, Member of the Academy of Science Political Morals and and official audience of re-entry of Sept. 16 1964 of Mr. Timbal Duclaux of Martin at the Court of Appeal of Limoges.

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