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Étienne, duc de Pasquier

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Also known as: Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier
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Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier
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April 21, 1767, Paris, France
Died:
July 5, 1862, Paris (aged 95)
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Étienne, duc de Pasquier (born April 21, 1767, Paris, France—died July 5, 1862, Paris) was a French statesman who was the last chancellor of France. A descendant of the celebrated 16th-century lawyer and man of letters Étienne Pasquier, he became a counsellor in the Paris Parlement in 1787. During the Revolution his father, also a counsellor, was guillotined, and Pasquier himself was arrested as a royalist (1794). He was set free during the Thermidorian reaction and was later created baron (1808) by Napoleon and appointed to the council of state and to the prefecture of police (1810). On the restoration ...(100 of 190 words)

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