Charles Giraud

Charles Joseph Barthélémy Giraud (20 February 1802 – 13 July 1881) was a French lawyer and politician.
He was twice Minister of Education during the French Second Republic.

Early years

Charles Joseph Barthélémy Giraud was born on 20 February 1802 at Pernes-les-Fontaines, Vaucluse, France.
He studied law at Aix-en-Provence, and became professor of administrative science and president of the academy.
In 1842 he was appointed inspector-general of the law schools in Paris, and then inspector-general of the board of education.
He was vice rector of the Académie française until 1848.

Political career

Giraud was Minister of Public Instruction in two cabinets in 1851, and was a member of the consultative council.
On 26 October 1851 Eugène Corbin, procureur-général at Bourges, was appointed Minister of Justice to replace Eugène Rouher, whose resignation had been accepted.
In the same decree Giraud was appointed Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, and was named interim Minister of Justice in Corbin's absence.
Corbin did not accept the appointment.
On 1 November 1851 Alfred Daviel was made Minister of Justice.

Giraud resigned from the consultative council in August 1852 after the confiscation of the property of the House of Orléans.
He then became professor of Roman Law in the faculty of Paris.
In 1861 he succeeded Laferriere as inspector general of the judiciary.
He died in Paris on 13 July 1881, aged 79.

Works

Giraud's works include:
*1838 ''Recherches sur le droit de propriété chez les Romains, sous la république et sous l'empire'' 1 vol. (VI-331-70 p.) Aix Aubin
*1845 ''Éloge de Schilter''. Discours d'ouverture, prononcé le 6 août 1845, 31 p. Strasbourg impr. de Vve Berger-Levrault
*1846 ''Histoire du droit francais au moyen age'' (2 vols., Paris, 1846);
*1847 ''Le traite d' Utrecht'' (translated into German and Spanish);
*1848 ''Notice sur Étienne Pasquier'', 83 p. Paris impr. de P. Dupont
*1850 ''De la situation de la dette publique en Espagne'', 32 p. Paris Guillaumin et Cie
*1852 ''Précis de l'ancien droit coutumier français'', 84 p. Paris A. Durand
*1856 ''Les tables de Salpensa et de Malaga'', relating to the bronze tables found in the latter locality (2d ed., revised and enlarged, 1856)
*1865 ''Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Saint-Evremond''. 3 vol. (VII-CCCXCVI-194, 557, 444 p.) Paris J. Léon-Techener fils
*1867 ''Des legs particuliers en droit romain et en droit français'', 1 vol. (132 p.) Poitiers impr. de H. Oudin
*1873 ''Novum enchiridion juris romani in quo continentur legum antiquarum, imprimis XII tabularum, necnon edicti praetorii, quae supersunt, Pauli sententiae, Ulpiani fragmenta varia, Gaii et Justiniani Institutiones...'' (II-687 p.) Parisiis apud Cotillon et filium
*1873 ''Etudes nouvelles sur Gregoire VII. et son temps'', in the Revue des Deux Mondes of March 15, 1873, et seq.
*1875 ''Les bronzes d'Osuna'', (108 p.) Paris Impr. nationale
*1877 ''Les nouveaux bronzes d'Osuna'', nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée 1 vol. (61 p.) Paris Impr. nationale
*1881 ''La maréchale de Villars et son temps'' (290 p.) Paris Impr. nationale

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giraud, Charles Joseph Barthelemy
1802 births
1881 deaths
19th-century French lawyers
French Ministers of Public Education and Religious Affairs