Étienne, duc de Pasquier

Étienne, duc de Pasquier (born April 21, 1767, Paris, France—died July 5, 1862, Paris) was a French statesman who was the last chancellor of France. A descendant of the celebrated 16th-century lawyer and man of letters Étienne Pasquier, he became a counsellor in the Paris Parlement in 1787. During the Revolution his father, also a counsellor, was guillotined, and Pasquier himself was arrested as a royalist (1794). He was set free during the Thermidorian reaction...