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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
ia, the mother of Louis XIV. It is a beautiful architectural relic of those times. In the evening visited Foelix, where I passed three hours in conversation. I met there M. Bravard, Pierre Claude Jean Baptiste Bravard-Veyrieres, 1804-1861. His specialty was Commercial Law. He served in the Constituent Assembly of 1848, and in the Legislative Assembly of the next year, and rendered service in perfecting measures relating to this branch of jurisprudence. Sumner wrote to Judge Story, April 21: I have spent a long evening with Bravard, Professor of Commercial Law, and successor of Pardessus who vacated his chair at the time of the Revolution of July, being a great Carlist. Bravard says that Boulay-Paty's work is very much superior to that of Pardessus. one of the professors of law,—a man forty years old, with black hair, very agreeable and good-natured. We spoke of jurisprudence in France and America, and of slavery in the latter country; also of several French juridical works
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
is animated voice and manner. The cause that was argued was very important. M. Laborde, on one side, made what I thought a very beautiful speech,—animated, flowing, French. He used a brief, which appeared to contain the quotations only which he made; I think the whole argument had been written out and committed to memory. Dupin was dry and quiet in his delivery, having his whole argument written out, and reading it without pretending to look off his paper. Sumner wrote to Judge Story, April 21, that Dupin, the first lawyer of France, is not equal to Webster. He appeared here, as in the Chamber of Deputies, vulgar. The room in which the Cour de Cassation met was quite rich. The judges, as I counted them, were fifteen. Zzz A, a desk and bench not occupied on ordinary occasions; reserved, I believe, for the presence of the king. B, the king's seat. C, the benches occupied by the court ordinarily. D, the seat of the President. E, the seat of the Procureur-General,