Jacques-Pierre Charles Abbatucci ( co, Ghjacumu Petru Carlu Abbatucci; 21 December 1791,

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, Corsica – 11 November 1857,

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) was a Corsican-born French politician. He was a grandson of Jacques Pierre Abbatucci and a nephew of Charles Abbatucci, both of them generals of the

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Life

He began his professional life as a lawyer, finally becoming procureur du roi at

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in January 1816, conseiller to the royal court of

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in March 1819 and président de chambre to the court of Orléans in September 1830. In 1830 he was also elected député for Corsica, before being elected député for Le Loiret from 1839 to 1851. He was made minister of justice, Garde des Sceaux in January then a senator in December 1852, and remained a senator until his death. Under the

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, he was an important member of the opposition, close to

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. He distinguished himself in the campaign of reformist banquets, presiding over the banquet at Orléans and showing zeal in organising and assisting at the last forbidden banquet on 22 February 1848. These events would bring about the Monarchy's fall and the proclamation of the

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. Under the

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, in his role as garde des sceaux, he presided over the council of ministers in the emperor's absence. From 1852 to his death in 1857, he was a senator and an official councillor to

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, who made him chargé des affaires for Corsica, in which role he originated a large part of the immense progress the island realised under the Second Empire. His son, Jean-Charles Abbatucci (1816–85), was also a deputy under the

, and again under the

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References

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