See also: Berryer

Nicolas Rene Berryer , count of the Tool bag, is a magistrate and French politician born with Paris the March 4th 1703 and died in Versailles the August 15th 1762.

Biography

Nicolas Rene Berryer was the son of Nicolas Berryer, public prosecutor of the Grand the Council, and Elisabeth Nicole Ursule d' Arnollet de Rochefontaine. Initially prosecuting attorney at the requests of the hotel, it became in 1728 prosecuting attorney of the patents, then, in 1731, adviser with the fifth room of the investigations of the Parlement of Paris.

In 1738, it married wealthy heiress, girl of farmer general, Catherine Madeleine Jorts de Fribois: beautiful, pleasant and spiritual, it contributed to the advance of her husband. In 1739, this one became Maître of the requests then president of the Grand the Council before being named Intendant of the Poitou (1743 - 1747).

Friend of Madam de Pompadour, this one made name it general Lieutenant of police force when it became the mistress in title of Louis XV. He occupied this function of May 1747 at October 1757. Charged with protecting the relations between the king and his favorite, it created a “black cabinet”, in order to supervise the correspondence entrusted to the post office. One allotted to this service the disgrace of many enemies of the marchioness of Pompadour, in particular the count de Maurepas and the count d' Argenson. For as much, it appeared unable to identify the authors of the Libelle S heinous widespread against the favorite one.

According to Tocqueville, Berryer was “a man hard, haughty, coarse, with much of ignorance and even more presumption and of stubbornness”. Its brutality was worth to him the hatred of the people of Paris. One day that the Prime Minister chair it had convened at the Parliament, it declared that it could not cross Paris, because the rabble had sworn to kill it and to eat the heart to him.

November 1st 1758, always thanks to the protection of Madam de Pompadour, and with the support of Choiseul and of the marshal of Beautiful-Isle, it was named Secretary of State to the Navy. Not very anxious to assist the projects of unloading in England of the Secretary of State to the War, it especially stuck to reform its administration. With its usual brutality, he endeavoured to repress the abuses which he believed to distinguish in the administration of the Canada. He worked with a project of Court of investigation, which would have been qualified to rule on the complaints against its department for reason of frauds and increase of price, thus to punish the guilty of misappropriation ones, implied in the embezzlements and other irregularities which have occurred in Canada.

The October 13rd 1761, Louis XV replaced it by Choiseul and, not to return it, named it Minister of Justice of France, function which it occupied until the September 15th 1762.

It had only one girl, Marie Elisabeth Berryer, who married the September 4th 1758 Chrétien François de Lamoignon de Basville, which was Minister of Justice in 1787.

References

Related articles

• general Lieutenant of police force
• List of the Secretaries of State to the Navy (France)
• List of the French Ministers for the Navy and colonies
• List of the French Ministers for Justice

External bonds

• Note on Nicolas Rene Berryer

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