Felix Barthe

Biography

Felix Barthe made his studies with the Saint-Remi College of Toulouse then to the Faculty of Law of this city. He made his training course with Paris and was registered as lawyer with the bar of the capital. Very young person, it engaged in the charbonnery and became one of the men for liberal party, being pointed out at the same time by its talent of lawyer and by the heat of its opposition to the Restauration.

It was announced in particular by the speech that it pronounced with the funeral of the Lallemand young person, killed by a guard royal in June 1820 while shouting “Lives the Charter! ” at the time of a riot on the Place of the Harmony. Barthe tried, but without success, to make quote the assassin in front of the Conseil of war and addressed to the newspapers protests which was stopped by the Censure. Consequently, he pled in many political lawsuits. He made discharge in front of the Room of the pars the lieutenant-colonel Charon, shown to have taken part in a conspiracy in August 1820. It defended with Colmar three of shown discovered conspiracy with Belfort in 1821. In July 1823, it pled for the deputy of the Haut-Rhin Jean-Jacques Koechlin which had published a booklet on the plot of Colmar and was suspended for one month for the promptness of its pleading. Its liberal fellow-members took his defense then and organized a banquet in its honneur.
Il also defended the four sergeants of the La Rochelle. In front of the House of Commons, he pled for the Journal the Commercial , continued to have spoken slightly about the elections, and which was condemned to the minimal sorrow.

In 1830, Barthe was one of the craftsmen of the Glorious Three. It took part in the protest of the journalists against the Ordonnances of Saint-Cloud and in work of the provisional municipal commission. It was named prosecutor of the king close the civil court of the Seine.

He was elected appointed the October 21st 1830 in the 7th electoral district of Paris (381 votes out of 709 voters) against Nicolas Bavoux, which had just been appointed adviser-Master with the Court of Auditors and was thus subjected to re-election.

The November 27th 1830, it succeeded Joseph Mérilhou like Minister for the State education and the Worships and minister-chairing the Council of State in the Gouvernement of Jacques Laffitte.

The March 13rd 1831, it always succeeded Mérilhou like Minister for Justice in the Gouvernement Casimir Perier, while keeping the responsibility to chair the Council of State, and preserved these functions in the first government Soult until the April 4th 1834. It attached its name to the one of the legislative monuments of the reign: the law of the April 28th 1832 modifying the Penal code and the criminal Instruction code (See the article: Great laws under the monarchy of July).

the Caricature of the July 18th 1833 made the following portrait of it: “Has these equivocal eyes, with this false smile, this thick turning, this figure outrecuidante, you guess that this minister is Barthe. There is hardly but with the administration of justice in France, which you would have of the sorrow to recognize the ex-carbonaro Restoration; but what do you want? It is as that which monarchy likes them. ” According to the satirical newspapers of time, Barthe made profitable its strong strabism simultaneously to supervise the legitimists and the republicans.

He was re-elected appointed the July 5th 1832 in the 11th electoral district of Paris (589 votes out of 976 voters against 330 with Boulay of Meurthe). In 1834, it presented the law on the censure and the political associations.

Named Even of France and First president of the Court of Auditors (1834), it became again Minister for Justice in the second ministry Molé of the April 15th 1837 with the March 31st 1839. It then found the first presidency of the Court of Auditors and was made Grand Cross of the Légion of honor (April 19th 1846).

It was revoked of its functions of First president in 1848 but was reinstated in 1849. The December 31st 1852, it was named Senator Second Empire. It was shown relatively discrete and professed opinions much more preserving than in its youth. In the discussion of the address the March 6th 1861, it proposed an amendment requiring “the maintenance of Rome of the temporal sovereignty of the the Holy See, on which the independence of its spiritual authority rests”. This proposal astonished on behalf of old a carbonaro ; Prosper Mérimée explains it in these terms in a letter of the March 8th 1861: “Do you Know why Mr. Barthe, who usually is rather heavy, was better than of habit in its speech on the amendment? It is that he had consulted a Égérie nymph, and this nymph is not other than our friend Thiers. ”

He was also member of the Institut of France.

Source

Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, Dictionary of the French Members of Parliament , Paris, Bourloton, 1889

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