Pierre-Antoine Berryer
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Illustration of Berryer (ca. 1820)
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Member of the Legislative Body for Bouches-du-Rhône |
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In office 15 June 1863 – 29 November 1868 |
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| Preceded by | Edmond Canaple |
| Succeeded by | Alphonse Esquiros |
| Constituency | Marseille |
| Member of the Académie française | |
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In office 12 February 1852 – 29 November 1868 |
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| Preceded by | Alexis Guignard de Saint-Priest |
| Succeeded by | François-Joseph de Champagny |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies/National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône |
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In office 22 June 1834 – 2 December 1851 |
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| Preceded by | Félix de Beaujour |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Constituency | Marseille |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Haute-Loire |
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In office 25 November 1817 – 21 June 1834 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Jean-François Calemard de Lafayette |
| Constituency | Pierre Augustin Cuocq |
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January 4, 1790 Paris, France |
| Died | November 29, 1868 (aged 78) Augerville-la-Rivière, Loiret, French Empire |
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Ultra-royalist (1817–1830) Legitimist (1830–48; 1863–69) Party of Order (1848–1851) |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Gauthier (m. 1811; her d. 1842) |
| Children | Pierre Clémenent Arthur |
| Education | College of Juilly |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Pierre-Antoine Berryer (4 January 1790 – 29 November 1868) was a French advocate and parliamentary orator. He was the twelfth member elected to occupy Seat Four of the Académie française in 1852.
Berryer was born in Paris, the son of an eminent advocate and counsellor to the parlement. He was educated at the Collège de Juilly. Upon leaving he adopted the law profession. He was admitted advocate in 1811. He married in that same year. In the great conflict of the period between Napoleon I and the Bourbons, Berryer, like his father, was an ardent Legitimist. In the spring of 1815, at the opening of the campaign of the Hundred Days, he followed Louis XVIII of France to Ghent as a volunteer.
After the second restoration he distinguished himself as a courageous advocate of moderation in the treatment of the military adherents of the emperor. He assisted his father and Dupin in the unsuccessful defence of Marshal Ney before the chamber of peers. He undertook the defence of General Cambronne and General Debelle, procuring the acquittal of the former and the pardon of the latter. By this time he had a very large business as advocate, and was engaged on behalf of journalists in many press prosecutions.
Berryer stood forward with a noble resolution to maintain the freedom of the press, and he severely censured the rigorous measures of the police department. In 1830, not long before the fall of Charles X, Berryer was elected to the chamber of deputies. He appeared there as the champion of the king and encouraged him in his reactionary policy. After the revolution of July, when the Legitimists withdrew in a body, Berryer alone retained his seat as deputy. He unsuccessfully resisted the abolition of the hereditary peerage. He advocated trial by jury in press prosecutions, the extension of municipal franchises, and other liberal measures.
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