DECAZES Elie Duc (1780-1860) LAS dated Paris 24 September 18 - Lot 105

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DECAZES Elie Duc (1780-1860) LAS dated Paris 24 September 18 - Lot 105
DECAZES Elie Duc (1780-1860) LAS dated Paris 24 September 1834. One page in-4 addressed to Mr. Pasqueir: "Your regrets are too natural, Sir, and honor you too much so that I do not applaud it...... I do not foresee circumstances which must make change opinion Mr. President relative to the leave which he granted you...". Briefly a lawyer when he left school, Decazes joined the judiciary under the Empire. At the age of 35, he was appointed prefect of police in 1815 and quickly became a favourite of Louis XVIII. Elected to parliament the same year, the king made him his Minister of Police the same year and then, in 1819, President of the French Council of Ministers. In the second part of his life, he was an industrialist: he founded forges and mines in Aveyron and gave his name to Decazeville. He also inspired many characters in Honoré de Balzac's comédie humaine.
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