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Pierre-Antoine Berryer

French lawyer and politician
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Jan. 4, 1790, Paris, France
Died:
Nov. 29, 1868, Augerville (aged 78)

Pierre-Antoine Berryer (born Jan. 4, 1790, Paris, France—died Nov. 29, 1868, Augerville) was a French lawyer and politician, defender of the freedom of the press during the reigns of King Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. Called to the bar in 1811, Berryer wrote articles supporting monarchy and the papal powers of Roman Catholicism. He defended infringers of the monarchy’s press laws and won the acquittal of the liberal Roman Catholic cleric Hugues-Félicité-Robert de Lamennais in 1826. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in January 1830, he remained one of the sole representatives of Roman Catholic royalism after the July Revolution and ...(100 of 239 words)

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