Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey

Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey (born the March 28th 1742, with Tréveray in the department of the Meuse) is a Juriste and Politicien French.

Biography

His/her father, of parliamentary minor nobility, occupied a load in the magistrature. After the college of Ligny, Pierre Paul Henrion makes studies of Civil law to the Faculty of Pont-à-Mousson and is allowed as lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, the March 10th 1763.

In 1770, it is noticed by success that it obtains in the lawsuit of a black Esclave, which, brought in France by its Master, claimed its freedom. Its brilliance plea is printed and is worth to him the compliments of Voltaire. But Henrion seldom pleads; pushed by its taste of the scholarship, he prefers the work of a lawyer-consultant.

During the exile of the Parliament of Paris, decided by Louis XV following the conflict caused by the reform of the chancellor Maupeou (1771-1774), Henrion returns to live with the paternal castle of Pansey, close to Joinville (Haute-Marne). Besides it will be made call Henrion de Pansey , to be distinguished from his puîné brother who, it, will be called Henrion de Saint-Amand (Tréveray 1774-Pansey 1829).

The December 19th 1772, Henrion is initiated with the Cabin " Dedicated Brothers " of Ligny-in-Barrois; he will be then appointed Nahanet Big room, then with the Grand the East, in 1774. Of return to Paris, Henrion publishes in 1773, a Traité strongholds of Dumoulin analyzed and conferred with other feudalists , preceded by a praise of Dumoulin. In 1789, it supplements its treaty by its famous feudal Dissertations . At the beginning of the French revolution, Henrion leaves Paris and its storms and is withdrawn in Pansey. Having lost its lawyer load, it renders service to its compatriots by its legal consultations and, after Terror, accepts certain public office in the departmental central administration of Haute-Marne (year IV and V) and as professor of legislation at the central School of Chaumont (year VI).

Under the Consulate, in germinal year VIII (April 1800), Henrion de Pansey (still known as of Haute-Marne) is named judge with the Court of cassation. From now on, it is devoted to the study and the comments of the new laws: Of the competence of the Justice of the Peace (1805, 2nd edition in 1809, translation in German and Italian), Of the legal authority in France (1810), where it shows the benefits of the separation of the functions and defines original doctrines on the administrative dispute.

In 1810, it settles in the beautiful hotel of Trémoïlle, 50, rue de Vaugirard, in Paris (6th), very close to the Jardin of Luxembourg, with its nephew and his niece, the general Joseph-Marie Pernety and his wife Angélique Francoise born Henrion de Saint-Amand.

Napoleon estimated it. One day that the Emperor asked him why he had not married, Henrion answered him: " My faith, Lord, I did not have time of it. " The March 10th 1809, the Emperor appoints it president of the rooms of the requests, one of the formations of the Court of appeal and, in 1811, member of the Council of the Intendance of the extraordinary Field. With the audiences, it was always the arrived first and the last party. Knight of the Legion of honor since 1804, during the creation of the order, it is promoted officer the April 6th 1813 and commander the May 22nd 1825.

He is made knight of the Empire, by letters patent of May 1808 and Baron d' Empire, by letters patent of the October 27th 1810. Keen worker (it is said that Henrion de Pansey remained twelve years without dining out of at his place not to waste time), it is also a just man and an independent spirit. In a business where the tax department had succumbed before a Court of Appeal, Napoleon, which wished that the stop is broken, load the Merlin public prosecutor of Douai to probe the Court of appeal. Henrion de Pansey examines the business, joins together the room of the requests and, with it, estimates that the stop of the Court of Appeal would not incur cassation. " But, that will I answer SM, asks for the Public prosecutor? - Answer the Emperor, tells him Henrion de Pansey, which it is better that SM loses a few million rather than to see the Court of appeal discrediting itself by a injustice." In the same way, during the meeting of a Commission, Napoleon gives an opinion that all the members hasten to adopt. Henrion, only, is opposite and explains there its reasons with as well force as the Emperor, reconsidering his opinion, known as with Daru: " Why this old catch isn't my council? Made immediately the decree. " Next Sunday, at the court, after the mass, Napoleon approaches Henrion: " I do not hear, my dear president, that you leave the Court of appeal, I will ask for only councils of sharp voice to you. It has been ten years that you should be of my council, I thundered Cambacérès not to have spoken oneself earlier about you. " Thus Henrion de Pansey becomes, the April 3rd 1813, member of the Council of State, while remaining at the Court of appeal.

At the time of the First Restoration, the provisional government names it, the April 3rd 1814, police chief at the department of Justice (minister), function which he assumes until the May 12th 1814. Indicated, again, like advising State in extraordinary service, on July 5th, 1814, while remaining president of the room of the requests.

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