Nicolas Vimar

Nicolas Vimar (October 30th, 1744 with Mesnières (Seine-Lower) - December 29th, 1829 with Paris) was even count and of France.

He is member of the Parliament of Rouen, juriconsulte considered, at the beginning of the revolutionary disorders. As of the formation of the first municipal bodies in 1790, it is named prosecutor of the commune of Rouen, it makes this city an haven of peace for the moderate ones and those which one names at the time the aristocrats. Its coolness, the fact of electing with the legislative Parliament where it takes seat among the constitutional ones and is constantly opposed to excesses Mountain dwellers. He marries on September 22nd, 1794, Louise-Henriette Guesdon.

Member of the committee of legislation and the Commission of the twelve, his opposition to the extremists is worth to him to be imprisoned more than 6 months during Terror. He is released after Thermidor 9 and returns temporarily in the civil life. Recognized lawyer, it refuses for the first time the ministry for Justice that one proposes to him after the 18 Fructidor (September 4th, 1797) to replace Merlin. He agree however to become member of the committee of benevolence whose he had caused the establishment, then soon central committee of the State education. He is elected in 1798 deputy of Seine-Lower (today the Seine-Maritime) than the Conseil of Old the, then is not long in becoming secretary of this assembly of which he influences many his decisions. He is thus opposed all his forces to a resolution of the Conseil of the Five hundred, which wants to declare irrevocable the sales of the fields national though irregular, and not only those which are already consumed, but also those which will be done in the future. Its opposition to the system of spoliation which one wanted to thus consume gave birth to violent one but salutary debates. Unfavorable to directorial tyranny, confidant of Cambacérès, it makes party of the small group of entreated which by the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire carries Bonaparte to the capacity.

The accession of Cambacérès to the consulate requires the nomination of its substitute to the ministry for Justice. On the authorities of his friend, Nicolas Vimar is thus had a presentiment of once again for this wallet, but whereas the decree is written he challenges himself.

He on the other hand is named the 19 brumaire year VIII Member of the intermediate legislative Commission of Old which gives to France its new institutions. He enters to the preserving Senate during his creation the 3 nivôse year VIII. He is then 60 years old. He is elected member of the particular council of this body, of which there will remain always an influential member, during the sessions of 1805,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,1813. He is equipped with very rich the sénatorie of Nancy in May 1804. June 3rd, 1808, by letter patent, it is made count.

Faithful to its royalist ideas, it takes an active share with the forfeiture of the Emperor and the recall of the Bourbons. He votes the forfeiture of the Emperor on April 3rd, 1814, and belonged to the charged commission of the drafting of the Charte, condition posed with the return of Louis XVIII on the throne of his fathers. June 4th, 1814, it has by the King to come to sit in prestigious the Chambre of the pars.

Faithful to the Bourbons, he abstains from sitting during the Hundred Days, he on the other hand is elected like representative of Seine-Lower than the Room, where he shows himself perfectly hostile with the Emperor. He limits his activity to the committee of legislation of this room. After Waterloo, in front of the projection of the Allies, the latter names a delegation to present to the united sovereigns the declaration of its principles, but the count Vimar does not accept this mission. After the return of the King in July 1815, it reinstates Peerage where it defends the freedoms granted by the Charter, monarchical mode with English which was always that of its most expensive wishes. With the lawsuit of the marshal Ney, he votes death.

Count, his title was confirmed by letters patent by Louis XVIII. Par of France on a purely hereditary basis. Member of the legion of honor (1803), commander (1804), large-officer (June 30th, 1811), he is member of the committee of the dispute of this kind until his death. There remains titular sénatorie of Nancy where he is generous.

In Paris, where it resides most of the time, there remains familiar of the living room of Cambacérès until the death of this last in 1824, where he crosses of old friends like Boissy d' Anglas, Choiseul, Chaptal or Daru. It is known for its moderation, its field crop and its vast legal science. He dies on December 29th, 1829 in his private mansion of the street Bellechasse in Paris.

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