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André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 29 April 1832 – 2 February 1839
Preceded by	Amédée Girod de l'Ain
Succeeded by	Hippolyte Passy
Personal details
Born	(1783-02-01)1 February 1783 Varzy, France
Died	8 November 1865(1865-11-08) (aged 82) Paris, France

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1 February 1783 – 8 November 1865), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly.

Dupin was born at Varzy, in the Nièvre département, in France. He was educated by his father, who was a lawyer of eminence, and at an early age he became principal clerk of an attorney at Paris. On the establishment of the Académie de Legislation he entered it as pupil from Nièvre. In 1800 he was made advocate, and in 1802, when the schools of law were opened, he received successively the degrees of licentiate and doctor from the new faculty. He was in 1810 an unsuccessful candidate for the chair of law at Paris, and in 1811 he also failed to obtain the office of advocate-general at the Court of Cassation. About this time he was added to the commission charged with the classification of the laws of the empire, and, after the interruption caused by the events of 1814 and 1815, was charged with the sole care of that great work. When he entered the chamber of deputies in 1815 he at once took an active part in the debates as a member of the Liberal Opposition, and strenuously opposed the election of the son of Napoleon as emperor after his father's abdication.

At the election after the second restoration Dupin was not reelected. He defended with great intrepidity the principal political victims of the reaction, among others, in conjunction with Pierre-Nicolas Berryer, Marshal Ney; and in October 1815 boldly published a tractate entitled Libre Defense des accusés. In 1827, he was again elected a member of the chamber of deputies and in 1830 he voted the address of the 221, and on 28 February he was in the streets exhorting the citizens to resistance. At the end of 1832, he became president of the chamber, which office he held successively for eight years. On Louis Philippe's abdication in 1848 Dupin introduced the young count of Paris into the chamber, and proposed him as king with the duchess of Orléans as regent.

This attempt failed, but Dupin submitted to circumstances, and, retaining the office of procureur-general, his first act was to decide that justice should henceforth be rendered to the "name of the French people." In 1849, he was elected a member of the Assembly, and became president of the principal committee—that on legislation. After the coup d'état of 2 December 1851, he still retained his office of procureur-general, and did not resign it until effect was given to the decrees confiscating the property of the house of Orléans. In 1857, he was offered his old office by the emperor, and accepted it, explaining his acceptance in a discourse, a sentence of which may be employed to describe his whole political career. "I have always", he said, "belonged to France and never to parties."

Among Dupin's works, which are numerous, may be mentioned Principia Juris Civilis, 5 vols. (1806); Mémoires et plaidoyers de 1800 au 1ier janvier 1830, in 20 vols.; and Mémoires ou souvenirs du barreau, in 4 vols. (1855–1857).

His brother, Pierre Charles François Dupin, was a mathematician.

References

1. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 686.

v t e First ministry of Louis-Philippe (11 August 1830 to 2 November 1830)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
Interior	François Guizot
Justice	Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure
Foreign Affairs	Louis-Mathieu Molé
War	Étienne Maurice Gérard
Finance	Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Navy and Colonies	Horace François Sébastiani
Public Education, Religious Affairs	Victor de Broglie
Ministers without portfolio	Casimir Pierre Périer Jacques Laffitte André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon

• 1783 births
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