Nicolas Martin of North

Nicolas Ferdinand Marie Louis Joseph Martin known as Martin of North is a magistrate and politician franças born with Douai (Northern) the July 29th 1790 and died in the castle of Lormoy (Northern) the March 12th 1847.

Biography

After studies of right to Paris, Nicolas Martin of North was accepted doctor in right, and quickly became a brilliant lawyer at the bar of Douai. He was several times barristers president. City council man, temporary judge, vice-president of the old people's homes of Douai, he decided for the Restoration with an eagerness which was then the object of the mocking remarks of its political adversaries, because he adopted the Monarchie of July as of the shortly after the revolution of 1830.

Elected official appointed the October 28th 1830 by the large college of the Northern (571 votes out of 1.258 voters and 2.895 registered voters), it sat in the preserving majority of which it was not long in becoming one of the members more in sight thanks to his oratorical talents. He pointed out himself in particular in the general discussion of the bill on the composition of the Courts of Assizes and the declarations of the jury (January 6th 1831). The March 12th, he was the rapporteur of the charged commission to examine the bill concerning the procedure for the violations of the press laws. Shortly after (March 14th), it made reject an amendment of Georges Humann which proposed to apply to all work of public utility undertaken by the government the exceptional provisions of the project to the temporary expropriation of the private properties.

Re-elected the July 5th 1831 by the 5th college of the department of North (Douai) (91 votes out of 128 voters and 152 registered voters against 35 with Mr. Honore, lawyer), it was in charge of an important report/ratio on the law on advance in the army (October 8th). In February 1832, it presented the report/ratio of the charged commission to examine the bill authorizing the town of Paris to issue a loan of 40 million. Rapporteur of the board of inquiry charged to examine the intrigues of the S Kessner, cash clerk general of the Treasury which had disappeared by leaving a deficit from several million, it was shown to have attenuated, even covered, certain responsibilities, and violently assumed with part by the opposition.

Named prosecuting attorney with the Court of appeal the August 6th 1833, it saw its mandate of deputy confirmed by his voters (93 votes out of 109 voters and 151 registered voters) and was indicated like one of the secretaries of the House of Commons. It presented the report/ratio of the bill on associations adopted the March 26th 1834. The April 5th 1834, it was named public prosecutor close the Court of Appeal of Paris, to replace Jean-Charles Persil, was named Minister of Justice. The April 15th, the king indicated it to fulfill the functions of public prosecutor close the Court of the pars, convened to judge the lawsuit of insurgent of Lyon (April 1834). Its promotion in the magistrature led it to be represented in front of its voters who renewed their confidence to him the May 10th 1834 (105 votes out of 170 voters). He was also re-elected during the general renewal of the June 21st (109 votes out of 113 voters and 172 registered voters) and was elected vice-president of the House of Commons the August 8th 1834.

In 1835, it was occupied by the lawsuit of risen of April 1834 and, in 1836, by those of the attack of Fieschi, of the attack of Alibaud, the plot of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Succeeding the report/ratio of Girod of Ain, its indictment in the lawsuit of risen of April occupied four meetings.

Martin of North travelled in Suisse in September 1836 when he was recalled to Paris to be named, the September 19th 1836, public Minister for Labor, of Agriculture and of the Trade in the first ministry Molé, functions that, patient, he could fill indeed only as from the October 16th. For this reason it dealt with the first concessions of the railroad. It presented bills for completion of royal roads, seaports, channels and for the improvement of various navigable rivers. It also filed in the bill on the exclusive application of the metric system and the bill on the defects rhédibitoires of the pets. It made raise the prohibition of wool wire abroad and lower the rights on the foreign coals. It increased the encouragements with agriculture, tried a reorganization of the Conservatoire arts and trades and created several purses with the central École of arts and manufactures.

It preserved the same wallet in the second ministry Molé until the March 30th 1839. Its voters of North had renewed their confidence to him the October 29th 1836, November 4th 1837 (116 votes out of 119 voters and 179 registered voters) and March 2nd 1839 (108 votes out of 129 voters). Re-elected with the vice-presidency of the Room, it was named Minister for Justice and of the Worships the October 29th 1840 in the third ministry Soult, station which it preserved until in 1847. During this period, it did not cease being re-elected by its voters of Douai, the December 5th 1840 (137 votes out of 140 voters), July 9th 1842 (173 votes out of 177 voters and 235 registered voters) and 1846 (172 votes out of 173 voters and 231 registered voters).

Like Minister of Justice, it announced by two circulars to the public prosecutors of the September 22nd 1841, one concerning the farm and rigorous execution of the law on illicit associations, the other concerning the violations of the press laws, which were highly attacked by the republican opposition. It presented to the rooms the law on the sales by order of the court of the buildings, on the responsibility for the owners of ships, on the auctions of new goods, the police force of hunting, the Council of State, on the restoration of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. It also dealt with the reform of the mortage mode, presented to the Room pars a bill on the legal noviciate and prepared a reform of the criminal Instruction code. As minister of religion, it successfully carried out delicate negotiations with the Jésuites and the the Holy See.

The January 15th 1847, an ordinance withdrew to him the ministry for Justice for “health reason”. The public rumor saw there a disguised dismissal, which would have had as a base, according to the Dictionnaire of the members of Parliament , “certain scandalous facts to which Mr. Martin (of North) would have taken part in a shady house”. At all events, he died a little later the March 12th 1847, officially of an attack of apoplexy, but some spoke about suicide (V. Scandales under the monarchy of July).

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