See also: Marie, Pierre Marie (homonymy)

Pierre Marie of Saint-Georges , was a politician and a lawyer, born with Auxerre the February 15th 1795, died with Paris the April 28th 1870. He was member of the Provisional government of 1848.

The lawyer and oppositional deputy

He was accepted lawyer in Paris in 1819, contributed for a pulpit to the Faculty of Law, occupied some philosophical working time and finally devoted himself entirely to the bar. In 1830, it was already honourably known; in little time the political lawsuits made it arrive at the celebrity. Defender of shown June 1832, Cabet and called Pip of the business Fieschi, it was regarded as one of the notabilities of the left opposition, when it was named appointed of Paris in 1842. He spoke little besides, and expressed his opposition by his votes more than by his speeches, as if he had wanted to conceal himself with the parliamentary fights and to keep all his forces for the palate. He had conquered a Juste re-elected besides in the lawsuits of press and the causes democratic.

Re-elected in 1846, it took share with the Campagne of the banquets and appeared to approach the radical democracy by pronouncing with the banquet of Orleans a toast to the improvement of the fate of the workers.

The Minister for the Second Republic

February 24th, it assembled the first to the platform to fight the proposal for a regency and proposed itself the nomination of a provisional government, motion which was reproduced by Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin, and acclaimed. Placed on the list drawn up with the Room, Marie went to settle with her colleagues with the Town hall and was charged moreover public Ministry of Labor. It belonged to the most moderate fraction of the government. It was him which organized the national Ateliers, less perhaps to relieve misery of the workmen without work than to make failure with socialism and Louis Blanc, “to raise furnace bridge against furnace bridge”, as he said itself, finally to counterbalance “the sectarian workmen of Luxembourg and the seditious workmen of the clubs”, like says it Lamartine with as much frankness than from crudeness.

Named representing of the Seine to the National Assembly, Marie was designated by votes to belong to the Executive commission. As a Minister for Labor, it accepted with the Luxembourg, the beginning of terrible the events of June, a delegation of the workmen, led by Pujol, dissatisfied with the decision of the government to send part of the workmen of the National Ateliers in the Sologne. Marie exaggerated firmness, carried herself in vehement and intransigent words. He, whose duty had been to calm passions, threatened its interlocutors that if they did not obey the government, one could force there. These words contributed to push the workers with despair and aggravation and to precipitate the civil war.

It fell with the executive commission, but was called with the ministry for justice by Cavaignac. It was him which presented the law against the press, of August 11th, 1848, and which obtained from the Parliament the authorization of continuations against Louis Blanc and Caussidière. It was during a few weeks Minister for the State education and the Worships. Until the presidential election of the December 10th and 11th 1848, moreover, one saw it to join all measurements of reaction and to vote with the line. After December 10th, it returned in the rows of the moderate left and fought the policy of the president Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.

Not re-elected with the Legislative in May 1849, it took again its place with the bar and returned in the political life only in 1863, time when it was named appointed of Marseilles, in consequence of a coalition with the leaders Légitimiste S. From 1863 to 1869, it belonged to the left to the legislative Body, but took only very seldom share with the discussions. The voters of Marseilles did not renew to him its mandate with the legislative Body in 1869. Of a strongly shaken health, but unceasingly surrounded by regards by the magistrature, Marie pled so to speak until her last day. Honore of all its fellow-members, it, when it died, had just received them, like Berryer, an invaluable testimony of sympathy by the celebration of his about fifty palate.

In short, Marie, lawyer and very distinguished legist, remained completely below her reputation like politician.

Sources

• Larousse : Large Universal Dictionary of the 19th century

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