Casimir Pierre Périer, French statesman

Casimir Pierre Périer (October 11, 1777 - May 16, 1832) was a French statesman. This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in Leap years). ... 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Family

Born in Grenoble, he was the fourth son of a rich banker and manufacturer, Claude Périer (1742-1801), in whose house the estates of Dauphiné met in 1788. Claude Périer was one of the first directors of the Bank of France. Of his eight sons, Augustin (1773-1833), Antoine Scipion (1776-1821), Camille (1781-1844) and Auguste Casimir Périer (1811-1876), all distinguished themselves in industry and in politics. The family moved to Paris after the revolution of Thermidor (1794), and Casimir joined the army of Italy in 1798. View of Grenoble, 2002, with the snowy peaks of the Dauphiné Alps Location within France Grenoble ( Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ... Dauphiné is a former province in southeastern France, roughly corresponding to the present départements of the Isère, Drôme, and Hautes-Alpes. ... One of the Banque de Frances offices in Paris. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Thermidor was the eleventh month in the French Revolutionary Calendar, which was used only in France and only for thirteen years. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Career

On his father's death he left the army and with his brother Scipion founded a bank in Paris, the speculations of which he directed while Scipion took on its administration. He opposed the ruinous methods by which the duc de Richelieu sought to raise the war indemnity demanded by the Allies, in a pamphlet Réflexions sur le projet d'emprunt (1817), followed in the same year by Dernières réflexions in answer to an inspired article in the Moniteur. Richelieu can refer to: People Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal and Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642), French Cardinal, Duke, and politician, who served as Louis XIIIs chief minister Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1696-1788), marshal of France, grandnephew of the cardinal Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot...

In the same year he entered the chamber of deputies for Paris, taking his seat in the Left Centre with the moderate opposition, and making his first speech in defence of the freedom of the press. Re-elected for Paris in 1822 and 1824, and in 1827 for Paris and for Troyes, he elected to represent Troyes, and sat for that constituency until his death. Périer's violence in debate was not associated with any disloyalty to the monarchy, and he held resolutely aloof from the republican conspiracies and intrigues which prepared the way for the revolution of 1830. Under the Martignac ministry there was some prospect of a reconciliation with the court, and in January 1829 he was nominated a candidate for the presidency of the chamber; but in August with the elevation to power of Jules, Prince de Polignac, the truce ceased, and on the March 15, 1830 he was one of the 221 deputies who repudiated the pretensions put forward by Charles X. The Chamber of Deputies is the name given to the lower house of the bicameral legislatures of the following states: Argentina – Chamber of Deputies of Argentina (Cámara de Diputados) Bolivia – Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia (Cámara de Diputados) Brazil – Chamber of Deputies of Brazil (Cámara dos Deputados) Chile – Chamber of... Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public speech often through a state constitution for its citizens, and associations of individuals extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Troyes is a town in northeastern France. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, was a revolt by the middle class against Bourbon King Charles X which forced him out of office and replaced him with the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe. ... Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, French statesman Jean Baptiste Sylvere Gay, Vicomte de Martignac (June 20, 1778 - April 3, 1832), was a French statesman. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jules, prince de Polignac, French statesman Jules Auguste Armand Marie, prince de Polignac (1780 - March 29, 1847), French statesman, played a conspicuous part in the clerical and ultra-royalist reaction after the Revolution. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Charles X, King of France and of Navarre ( October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles. ...

Averse by instinct and by interest to popular revolution he nevertheless sat on the provisory commission of five at the hôtel-de-ville during the days of July, but he refused to sign the declaration of Charles X's dethronement. Périer reluctantly recognized in the government of Louis Philippe the only alternative to the continuance of the Revolution; but he was no favorite with the new king, whom he scorned for his truckling to the mob. Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ...

He became president of the chamber of deputies, and sat for a few months in the cabinet, though without a portfolio. On the fall of the weak and discredited ministry of Jacques Laffitte, Casimir Périer, who had drifted more and more to the Right, was summoned to power (March 13, 1831), and in the short space of a year he restored civic order in France and re-established her credit in Europe. Paris was in a constant state of disturbance from March to September, and was only held in check by the premier's determination; the workmen's revolt at Lyon was suppressed after hard fighting; and at Grenoble, in face of the quarrels between the military and the inhabitants, Périer declined to make any concession to the townsfolk. This page lists Presidents of the Lower Chamber (or only chamber, as the case may be) of the French parliament. ... Jacques Laffitte, French politician Jacques Laffitte (October 24, 1767–May 26, 1844), was a French banker and politician. ... This page is a list of French prime ministers. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the French city. ...

The minister refused to be dragged into armed intervention in favor of the revolutionary government of Warsaw, but his policy of peace did not exclude energetic demonstrations in support of French interests. He constituted France the protector of Belgium by the prompt expedition of the army of the north against the Dutch in August 1831. French influence in Italy was asserted by the audacious occupation of Ancona (February 23, 1832); and the refusal of compensation for injuries to French residents by the Portuguese government was followed by a naval demonstration at Lisbon. Warsaw ( Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of northeastern Italy, population 100,507 (2001). ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ...

Périer had undertaken the premiership with many forebodings, and overwork and anxiety prepared the way for disease. In the spring of 1832 during the cholera outbreak in Paris, he visited the hospitals in company with the duke of Orleans. He fell ill the next day of a violent fever, and died six weeks later. distribution of cholera Cholera (also called Asiatic cholera) is an infectious disease of the gastrointestinal tract caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. ... Prince Ferdinand-Philippe (September 3, 1810 - July 13, 1842) was Prince Royal of France. ...

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References

His Opinions et discours were edited by A. Lesieur (2 vols., 1838); C. Nicoullaud published in 1894 the first part (Casimir-Périer, député de l'opposition, 1817-1830) of a study of his life and policy; and his ministry is exhaustively treated by Thureau-Dangin in vols. 1. and ii. (1884) of his Histoire de la monarchie de juillet.

For the family in general see E. Choulet, La Famille Casimir Périer (Grenoble, 1894).

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