A History Of The French Bar PDF Download

Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the French Bar From Its Origin to the Present Day: With Biographical Notices of Some of the Principal Advocates of the Nineteenth Century The French Bar was some time ago selected by the author of the following pages as the subject of a series of papers, which have already appeared in the Journal of Jurisprudence. But it was found to be difficult to give even a satisfactory sketch of a history so extensive and important within the narrow limits afforded by a Journal principally devoted to matters of a more strictly technical and local nature; and it also appeared to the author that his subject was possessed of sufficient interest to warrant publication in a separate and more extended form. It may, perhaps, be thought that too great a space is devoted to the history of the French Bar during the nineteenth century. But for this there are good reasons; as that Bar has undergone greater changes, has produced greater men, and has played a more important part in the judicial and political arena during the nineteenth century, than during any former period of its history. Advocates were then statesmen, legislators, ministers, almost sovereigns; and, in the lives of some of the most eminent among them, may be found not only examples of ability, eloquence, and patriotism, but also an amount of incident and adventure, which seems extraordinary to us who belong to a less excitable race, and live in a country whose government possesses the valuable element of stability, instead of perpetually vibrating between the two extremes of democracy and despotism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.