Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier (6 December 1753 – 25 May 1839) was an 18th–19th-century French lawyer, politician and playwright.''Grands notables du premier empire'', éditions du CNRS, (p. 110-112)

Biography

The second son of Noble-Gaspard Duveyrier and Marie-Madeleine de Nivelet, Honoré Duveyrier received a military education in Perpignan before devoting himself to law in Paris. Once he became a successful lawyer, he was received in 1779 in

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He first married Adélaïde-Marie-Anne Lespardat with whom he had two children: Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, called

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, and Charles Duveyrier. En deuxièmes noces, he married Philippine-Marguerite Servins, with no offspring. Three days before his

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sent him in a mission to the

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, but he was taken prisoner by the Austrians. Upon his return, he was one of five commissioners delegated August 11, 1792 by the to the General Council of the

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. He was imprisoned at the instigation of

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. After his release, he was employed abroad as Commissioner for supplying the French armies. In 1796, he resumed his practice in Paris, before becoming Deputy Head of Finance in Rome, where he acquired a large fortune. He then became President of the Court of Appeal of Montpellier. Around 1808, he was president of the Montpellier Court of Appeal and became Baron of the Empire in 1810. Died in 1839, he is buried at

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(35th division).

Works

* ''La Cour plénière : héroï-tragi-comédie in three acts and in prose performed 14 July 1788 by a company of amateurs in a castle in the surroundings of Versailles'' by abbé de Vermond, lecteur de la reine, authors Honoré Duveyrier and Antoine Joseph Gorsas, publisher Liberté, 1788, 104 pages''La Cour plénière'' was sometimes wrongly attributed to

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. * ''Le Lever de Bâville: drame héroïque in 3 acts, pour servir de suite à "La cour plénière"'', authors Jean-George Le Franc de Pompignan, Honoré-Marie-Nicolas Duveyrier and Antoine-Joseph Gorsas, publisher Barbarini, 1788. * ''Histoire des premiers électeurs de Paris en 1789, extraite de leur procès-verbal'' by onoréDuveyrier… ''précédée d'une introduction et d'un essai sur le corps électoral…'' by Charles Duveyrier, Paris, Brussels, 1828, 456 p.
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Sources

* Alphonse Rabbe, Claude Augustin Vieilh de Boisjoslin et Charles Claude Binet de Sainte-Preuve, ''Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains; ou, Dictionnaire historique des hommes vivants et des hommes morts depuis 1788 jusqu'à nos jours: qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes'', Volume 4, 1836, (p. 1557–1558). * George Ripley & Charles A. Dana, ''The American Cyclopaedia'

* Paul Bauer, ''Deux siècles d'histoire au Père-Lachaise'', Versailles, Mémoire & Documents, 2006, 867 p. ()

References

External links

Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier
on data.bnf.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Duveyrier, Honore Nicolas Marie People from Provence 1753 births 1839 deaths 19th-century French lawyers French Revolution 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Barons of the First French Empire