Joseph Marie Portalis

Portrait of Joseph Marie Portalis.

Portalis Joseph ^Marie, 1st Earl Portalis ( 19 February 1778 in Aix-en-Provence - August 5 1858 at Passy (Seine) (now Paris ^XVI )), is a judge , diplomat and politician French of the nineteenth ^century.

Revolution

Son of Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (died in 1807 , one of the statesmen of the most illustrious of modern times, former Minister for Religious Affairs ) and Lady Margaret Frances (Sister of Joseph Jerome Simeon ), Joseph Marie made her studies under the guidance of his father. He was barely twelve years old when the ban that threatened his father forced them both to flee to Lyon , and from there to Paris ( 1793 ).

Young Joseph attended sessions with passion to the National Convention : it was in particular that of 8 Thermidor, which led to the fall of Robespierre.

Joseph began Portalis still very young in the letters with an article on Montesquieu , inserted in 1796 in the French Republican.

He was obliged, in the month of September 1797 , to accompany his father into exile in Holstein. They were greeted by the Count and Countess of Reventlau, who offered them shelter in their castle Emckendorff. Joseph married the niece and ward of the Count, the Countess of Holck. It was there he published the pamphlet entitled: From the historian's duty to properly consider the character and genius of each century in finding the great men who lived there. The Stockholm Academy crowned this thesis that the author had printed in Paris in 1800.

Consulate and Empire

Returning to France after the coup of 18 Brumaire Year VIII ( 9 November 1799 ), favor the head of state Joseph loaded with dignities. Mr. Portalis was appointed a supernumerary at the Ministry of External Relations ( 1799 ), commissioner to the Council taken on 4 April 1800 and Secretary of Embassy in Saxony in the same year.

First used by Joseph Bonaparte during the Treaty of Luneville , and the Congress of Amiens , he was sent to London with the general Andreossy. At the break with England, he was sent to Portalis Berlin , for the same office, the 14 June 1803 , then to Regensburg in the month of October 1804 , as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of France to Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg ( Archbishop and Elector of Mainz , primate archchancellor the Holy Roman Empire , residing at Regensburg ) and the Germanic Diet.

But, having sought the favor of closer to his family, he was recalled and was chosen, 2 June 1805 , to meet with his father as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

He became master of requests in service at the regular State Council on 14 June 1806 , was appointed by Acting Portfolio Department of worship after the death of his father (who was then assigned to Bigot de Prameneu ) in the month of September 1807 and was successively appointed state councilor , attached to the Petitions Committee and the Committee of Counsel in 1807 and then to the section of the Interior on 4 January 1808 , a member of the board of the seal of the securities on March 12 in the same year, and general manager of the bookstore on February 12 1810.

He was created a Knight of the Empire on 26 April 1808 , and Count of the Empire on 9 December 1809. "So many favors granted to the young Portalis, we read in the Biography of Men of the Day that Pope Pius VII had sent the canon against the nomination of Cardinal Maury as archbishop of Paris.

"When someone is totally up to me, like you, he responds to those who belong to him. Those are my maxims , "said the Emperor. It must be all mine and do everything for me. You have betrayed me. You have failed to recognize and to your duty. Get out. "And when he was gone, Napoleon said:" Since I am the government, this is the first person near me who betrayed me. Then he turned to Locr who wrote the minutes of meetings: You write betrayed, you understand, sir Locr ? This is the proper word, the only proper for the conduct of Mr. Gates. "

Stripped of all his offices and banished to 40 miles of Paris , on 5 January 1811 , Portalis busied philosophical and literary works.

In the month of June 1813 , at the insistence of Count Mole , Napoleon, forgetting his discontent, appointed the chief justice Portalis, first president of the court imprialr Angers , a position he held until the end of the Hundred days.

Restoration

Louis XVIII created the State Councillor on special duty, and Officer of the Legion of Honour and 24 and 28 August 1814. Maintained during the Hundred Days , Portalis still manages to retain the good graces of the king.

Returned to the State Council, he was attached to the service of ordinary legislation, and became therefore one of the most zealous advocates royalist. Always willing to show some favorable feelings towards the press, he had the Chamber of Deputies a bill for the suppression of cries seditious and was appointed adviser to the Court of Cassation ( 23 August 1815 ).

In May 1818 he was appointed as special envoy of France to Rome, the first negotiations on a new arrangement.

The Duke Decazes had called him ( 5 March 1819 ), the House of Lords , and ( 21 February 1820 ) as Under- Secretary of State at the Department of Justice on 21 February 1820 he held until the advent of the firm Villele ( 3 December 1821 ).

Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on May ^1, 1821 , and instructed Acting on July 18 following the portfolio of the Department of Justice during the absence of the keeper , he was appointed President of the Chamber in the Court of Cassation on 6 August 1824.

In a report to the House of Lords, in 1825 , he revealed that a Jacobin of Ancenis , coveting the possessions of the Hospital of Nantes , had placed the hospital on the list of emigrants. On 18 January 1827 , Portalis made to the House of Lords his famous report on the petition of Mr. Montlosier against the legality of the existence of the Jesuits in France.

Promoted Keeper on 4 January 1828 , when the constitution of the firm Martignac , he attached his name to several important measures, such as that repealed the censorship and one that suppressed the election fraud. He exchanged on 14 May 1829 , the portfolio of Justice for the Foreign Ministry , left vacant by Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency-Laval , and he held until August 7 following the advent of the Polignac ministry.

On leaving office, he also reserved the place of First President of the Court of Cassation and member of the Privy Council.

July Monarchy

Joseph-Marie Portalis dressed as vice president of the Court of Cassation.

Basically a friend of the authority, he rallied eagerly to the government of Louis-Philippe ^I , and continued to take an active part in the work of the House of Lords, where he was a vice-presidents. He spoke to the hereditary peerage , spoke against the reinstatement of the divorce , and lent support its voice and its influence on all measures conservative and repressive.

In 1835 , he was the assessor of MM. Pasquier Decazes and instruction in the trial in April. Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences ( 9 February 1839 ), Section of law and jurisprudence, he communicated to the Institut de France remarkable observations on the code Sardinian compared to the French Civil Code.

Second Republic and Second Empire

During the revolution of February 1848 , Portal maintains its position as first president of the Court of Cassation, on behalf ds which submitted comments on the judiciary.

He also said his views conservative and monarchist in a pamphlet entitled: The Man and Society.

After the coup of December 2, 1851 , Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte appointed him senator ( 26 January 1852 ). An incident during the oath of new senators, showed a historian said that the count Portalis "did not want to give up the opportunity to proclaim his loyalty more foils. His name was not called: he protested against the omission, and the oath having trelue Mr. Portalis lent at very high voice, his eighth political oath. He joined the restoration of the Empire, was rapporteur ( 1856 ) of the bill on the regency , and sat in the Luxembourg Palace until his death ( August 5 1858 ).

He was the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

Family Life

Eldest son of Jean Etienne Marie Portalis ( 1746 1807 ) and Marguerite Francoise Simon ( 1752 1813 ), Joseph married Mary Portalis, the 9 May 1801 at Knigsbrck (Lower Lusatia ), Frederique ( 24 October 1784 - Kiel ( Duchy of Holstein ) ¹ September 1838 - Paris ), Countess of Holck, whom he had:

• Franoise Julie Stephanie ( 1802 27 March 1865 - Versailles ), married on 3 October 1821 with Rudolph ( 31 March 1789 - The Eagle 27 January 1878 ), Baron Saillard, whose posterity;
• Frederic ( 13 April 1804 - Berlin ( Kingdom of Prussia ) 30 August 1846 - Paris ^XVI ), Viscount Portalis , magistrate and politician , married, 11 December 1828 , with Adrienne Philippine ( 11 October 1811 - Paris 30 March 1891 - Paris ), daughter of Claude Philibert Edward Baron Mounier and granddaughter of Jean-Joseph Mounier , including:
  • Stephen William Charles ( 1829 - Paris 31 October 1884 - Arromanches ^), 2nd Earl Portalis , Counsellor Court of Appeal of Paris , married, 25 April 1870 , with Jeanne Mounier ( 18 August 1846 - Paris 16 August 1917 ), granddaughter of Claude Philibert Edward Baron Mounier and great-grand-daughter of Jean Joseph Mounier , including:
    • a son, married, whose posterity;
    • Frederic Auguste Casimir Waldemar ( June 20 1873 - Ville d'Avray July 30th 1962 - Hornoy-le-Bourg ), Saint-Cyr ( 1893 - 1895 , promotion of Joan of Arc ), generally coming from the horse , married with ^Miss Dominique de Glos, including:
      • two daughters, whose descendants married;
      • three son, married, whose surviving descendants;
    • a son, four children;
    • two daughters;
  • Frederick Edward ( 27 March 1832 - Paris September 5th 1913 - Bayeux ), squadron commander of cavalry , Viscount Portalis , married on 16 May 1867 with Alice Boisnormand of Bonnechose ( 1844 - Paris 10 October 1925 - Bayeux ), including:
    • a son, married ^Miss Vogelsang;
    • Wilhelmina ( 1869 1951 ), religious ( auxiliary purgatory );
    • a son, married;
    • a son, married ^Miss La Rochebrochard Brochard, whose surviving descendants;
  • Julie Wilhelmine Albertine Adrienne ( 1834 - La Ciotat 3 January 1917 - Saint-Cme-de-Fresn ), married in January 1860 with Mark Victor Henri Delacour ( 1826 1864 ), whose posterity;
  • Philip Conrad Rudolph ( 2 April 1840 - Paris April 2 1917 - Versailles ), squadron leader , married, in 1870 , Julie Angles ( 1832 - Mably 1872 ), granddaughter of Julius Angls , including a girl and then remarried on 8 June 1882 , with Genevieve Elizabeth Jeanne Marie Gavel ( 26 July 1858 September 5th 1929 ), including:
    • a son, married, including:
      • a daughter, married;
    • a son, married, including:
      • two daughters married;
    • a daughter, married William Jacques Sauville La Presle ( 5 July 1888 - Versailles 6 May 1969 - Paris ), musician - composer , Rome Prize , which posterity;
• Harold Jean Baptiste ( 2 August 1810 - Paris 8 December 1899 - The Vsinet ), Baron Portalis , Treasurer and Receiver General of Finance, married on 12 August 1840 , with Adrienne Victorine Louise Caroline ( 13 August 1823 - Paris 17 April 1881 - Paris ), daughter of Claude Philibert Edward Baron Mounier and granddaughter of Jean-Joseph Mounier , including:
  • Harold William Charles ( 23 October 1841 - Vesoul 11 April 1917 ), mayor of Orleans ( 1899 - 1905 ), married, 15 January 1873 , with Mary Angela albacore Villebourgeon (born 22 October 1845 ), including:
    • a son, married Christine Bordres-Seilliere (born 14 March 1874 - Paris ), without issue;
    • a son, married the daughter of Scipio Charles Marie Eugene de Nicola , without issue;
    • a son, without issue;
  • Ina ( 14 May 1843 - Paris 26 October 1915 );
  • Edward Albert ( 26 March 1845 - Vesoul 29 April 1918 - Poissy ), journalist , married on 8 December 1892 at Boulogne , Laure Lapie ( 2 November 1846 ¹ November 1938 ), without issue;
  • Joseph ( 11 May 1852 - Orlans 5 July 1932 - Paris ), engineer. Married once, to Marie Hermance albacore Villebourgeon ( 13 February 1851 November 10th 1883 - Hendaye ), without issue, he remarried and had two children. He also married a third time to have had two other children:
    • a son;
    • three daughters, married, with posterity;
• Joseph Ernest ( 17 October 1816 - Paris 21 January 1891 - Paris ), French politician , married, 16 June 1846 , Sidonie Damemme 5 January 1826 - Lons-le-Saunier ¹ September 1898 - Paris ^VIII ), sour his eldest sister (wife of Joseph Jules Portalis ), maid of honor HIH Princess Mathilde Bonaparte , including:
  • Ernest ( 27 May 1847 21 June 1887 );
  • Stephanie Gabrielle Marie Marguerite ( 1852 16 June 1857 );
  • Francis ( 25 January 1859 after 1922 );
• Julius Joseph ( 28 January 1822 - Paris 28 June 1865 - Paris ), Baron Portalis , a politician , married, 22 April 1851 with Mary ( 1829 25 or 27 June 1852 - Paris ), daughter of Aim Auguste Boullee, a href = "Procureur_du_roi" alt = "Attorney of the King" class = "mw-redirect"> king's attorney in Macon , where he had his eldest son. A widower, he remarried, the July 4th 1854 with Anne Marie Elisabeth Damemme ( 1831 October 28th 1885 - Paris ), daughter of Gabriel Damemme ( 3 October 1864 - Paris ^VIII ). His five children are:
  • Jules ( 17 June 1852 April 27th 1889 - Buenos Aires ( Argentina ));
  • Gabriel Adrian Frederick ( 21 November 1855 November 16th 1922 - Buenos Aires ( Argentina )), married to ^Miss Harty Pierrebourg (great-grand-daughter of Oliver Harty );
  • Anne Marie Gabrielle Amelia ( 21 November 1855 31 October 1872 );
  • Gabriel Joseph Marie Rudolph Sextius ( 20 December 1856 27 May 1942 - Biarritz ), officer , married;
  • and two other son.

The descendants of Joseph Marie Portalis among the remaining families of the nobility of the Empire.

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Weapons of a Knight of the Empire ( 1808 ) Party in the first azure a fess Gules charged the sign of the knights Legionnaires, along with open tip of a crenellated tower of three parts sand and checkered silver second quaterly money in the first fess gules, the second also money to seven billets azure blue of the third, the trapdoor recessed gold, silver in the fourth, the wall of masonry sand golden crenellated three pieces. , ,

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