PORTALIS (Joseph Marie). Born in Aix-en-Provence. 1778-1858. - Lot 243

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PORTALIS (Joseph Marie). Born in Aix-en-Provence. 1778-1858. - Lot 243
PORTALIS (Joseph Marie). Born in Aix-en-Provence. 1778-1858. French magistrate and politician. L.A.S. "Le Comte de Portalis Pair de France". Paris, August 3, 1825. 1 page in-8. Portalis indicates: "...In accordance with your request, I have hereby remitted to Mr le Baron Rivière, Receveur général des finances à Lyon, the sum of one thousand five hundred francs, the amount of the two bills I subscribed in your favor [...] If you present yourself in Lyon, at the Caisse de la Recette générale after the fifteenth of the current month, you will be remitted on the basis of the present and the remittance you will make of the two bills this same sum...". He concludes by saying: "...I wish you a happy life...". President of a chamber of the Court of Cassation in 1824, Joseph-Marie Portalis was Keeper of the Seals in the Martignac cabinet, before taking over the Justice portfolio and then Foreign Affairs in 1852. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte appointed him to the Senate. He took part in the re-establishment of the Empire, and was rapporteur for the regency bill.
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