André-Pierre Nouvion (born 1939) is a French lawyer and historian of French law.

Biography

Educated with the

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, André-Pierre Nouvion holds a Doctorate in Public Law and

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( Panthéon-Assas University). His career has been devoted to the promotion and study of French consular institutions. A former director of the

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, he has defended the French CCI model, both in France and internationally. In particular, he was appointed by the

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to visit the cambodian authorities in

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

, then

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. His research influenced the work of the parliamentary committees preparing the 2010 reform of consular networks.

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, ''Rapport fait au nom de la Commission des affaires économiques, sur le projet de loi relatif aux réseaux consulaires, au commerce, à l'artisanat et aux services (n° 1889), par M Catherine Vautrin, Députée'', 24 March 2010 Sénat, ''Rapport fait au nom de la commission de l'économie, du développement durable et de l'aménagement du territoire (1) sur le projet de loi, adopté par l'Assemblée nationale, relatif aux réseaux consulaires, au commerce, à l'artisanat et aux services, Par M. Gérard Cornu, Sénateur'', 27 May 2010 In 1992, he was awarded the Prix d'histoire consulaire by the Assemblée des Chambres Françaises de Commerce et d'Industrie for his book L'institution des Chambres de commerce : pouvoirs et contrepoids published by Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence Assemblée des Chambres Françaises de Commerce et d'Industrie (ACFCI), ''Prix d'Histoire Consulaire remis tous les deux ans - Palmarès'', 1992. He was an auditor at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale, and for more than twenty years wrote the section on consular establishments in the

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encyclopaedia.

Political involvement

He became politically active at a very early age, joining the Union des jeunes pour le progrès (UJP). Alongside other members of the UJP, he manned the offices of

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and

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's Groupe Rassemblement pour la République (at 21, rue Cujas in Paris) during the demonstrations of

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Publications

* ''Une histoire immédiate des Chambres de commerce, Droit, Pratique de l'Institution Consulaire : 1982-2012 Des accords "Netter" aux lois de refondation'' - Paris, 2013 - * ''Pratique et droit des Chambres de commerce et d'industrie françaises, Lexique raisonné - vol.3 : Réforme 2010'' - Paris, 2011 - * ''Trois familles en Périgord-Limousin dans la tourmente de la Révolution et de L'Empire : Nouvion, Besse-Soutet-Dupuy et Chassériau'' - Paris, 2007 - * ''Chambres de commerce et d'industrie'' - Encyclopédie juridique

- Répertoire de droit commercial - Paris, 2005 * ''Pratique et droit des Chambres de commerce et d'industrie françaises - Réforme 2004-2005'' - Paris, 2004 - * ''Origine et histoire des juridictions consulaires et des Chambres de commerce et d'industrie Françaises'' - Paris, 2002 - * ''Chambres de commerce et d'industrie'' - Encyclopédie juridique

- Répertoire de droit commercial - Paris, 1999 * ''L' institution des Chambres de commerce : pouvoirs et contrepoids'' - Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence (LGDJ) - Paris, 1992 -

Award

* History Award (1992) from the Assembly of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ACFCI)

Family

Descended from a wealthy family established as early as

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The origin of the Nouvion family fortune comes from the ancestors

Jean-Baptiste Nouvion Jean-Baptiste Nouvion (30 September 1833 – 1 August 1898) was a French prefect and a colonial administrator in Algeria. He made the success of the French aperitif Sirop de Picon. Career He started his career as chief of staff of the Civil g ...

(1833-1898) and Baron

Charles Frédéric Chassériau Baron Charles Frédéric Chassériau du Chiron (29 January 1802 – 11 January 1896) was a Saint Dominican architect and painter, who served as chief architect of the cities of Marseille, Algiers, in Algeria; and Cairo, in Egypt. He is particu ...

(1802- 1896) who were wealthy landowners in Algeria, particularly in Algiers and through the companies exploiting the cork oak forests and zinc and silver lead mines of Oued Oudina. André-Pierre Nouvion's grandfather was the shipowner

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, former mayor of Marseille and president of the

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. His father is the pneumologist Henri Nouvion, known for his research work in

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Notes

External links

''L'Inter consulaire'' - National journal of the French Chambers of commerce and industry, June 2005
* Bicentennial of the French Commercial Code 1807-2007: Les actes du colloque ''Études, mélanges, travaux'' by Catherine Delplanque, Éditions Dalloz, 2008 20th-century French lawyers 20th-century French historians 1939 births Living people Writers from Paris Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni French male non-fiction writers Chassériau family 21st-century French historians {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub