Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret
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Marquess Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret |
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Marquis de Pastoret by Paul Delaroche (1829)
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President of the Chamber of Peers Lord Chancellor of France |
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In office 17 December 1829 – 3 August 1830 |
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| Monarch | Charles X |
| Preceded by | Charles Dambray |
| Succeeded by | Étienne-Denis Pasquier |
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In office 18 August 1796 – 21 September 1796 |
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| Preceded by | Boissy d'Anglas |
| Succeeded by | Charles Antoine Chasset |
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Member of the Legislative Assembly for Seine |
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In office 1 October 1791 – 20 September 1792 |
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| Succeeded by | Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois |
| Constituency | Paris |
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24 December 1755 Marseille, France |
| Died | 28 September 1840 (aged 84) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
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Feuillant (1791–1793) Marais (1794–1796) Ultra-royalist (1815–1830) |
| Alma mater | Aix-Marseille University |
| Profession | Author, lawyer, teacher |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Claude-Emmanuel Joseph Pierre, Marquess of Pastoret (24 December 1775, Marseille – 28 September 1840, Paris) was a French lawyer, author and politician.
Pastoret was elected member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres on the strength of his "Zoroastre, Confucius et Mahomet comparés comme sectaires, legislateurs et moralistes". He was Venerable Master of "Les Neuf Sœurs" (A Parisian Freemason chapter) from 1788 till 1789.
In 1790 Claude-Emannuel Pastoret, then president of the Parisian electoral body to the National Assembly, was offered the offices of Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice by the desperate King Louis XVI. He declined the honours and was elected "procureur géneral syndic du département de la Seine". It was in that capacity that he was responsible for the transformation of the église Sainte-Génevieve into a temple for the remains of great citizens of the new state were to be honoured: the Panthéon, Paris.
In the National Assembly (French Revolution), he pleaded for the abolition of slavery and the secularisation of the civil state, but he was not a deputy.
Elected to the Legislative Assembly by the electors of Paris (September 1791), he was honoured as the first deputy to be elected President (3–17 October 1791). It was common for intellectuals to be elected to public office, and he joined such noteworthies as Condorcet. He most frequently allied himself with the constitutionalist faction and was highly respected by the opponent Girondist faction. He would undertake a variety of projects during the course of the Assembly, including requesting repressive measures against émigrés, the abolition of the New Year address to the Crown and the deletion of the purely honorific designations (and a more egalitarian form of social address). He voted for the abolition of the University of Paris and made a long speech to propose to raise a "statue of liberty" on the ruins of the Bastille. However, he realised, as time went by, that the reforms that he had been the first to demand increasingly threatened the royal authority he was trying to protect.
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