Gabriel Adrien Robinet de Cléry

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Gabriel Adrien Robinet de Cléry (18 August 1836 – 13 September 1914) was a French magistrate, historian and legal writer active during the Second French Empire and the Third French Republic.

Biography

Descended from a family of magistrates,[1] Robinet de Cléry was born in Metz, Moselle. His father Eugène,[2] a lawyer from Metz, was later appointed First President of the Court of Besançon.[3]

Substitute prosecutor in Oran in 1860, Adrien Robinet de Cléry was appointed to Charleville in 1863, before leaving in September 1864 for Oran. In July 1867, he became general counsel at the imperial court of Algiers.[4]

The Franco-German War of 1870 broke out in July, while he was still in Africa. He volunteered for the 7th Battalion of the chasseurs à pied on September 12, 1870 and was assigned to the 108th Line. Stuck in Paris during the siege of the city, he kept a diary and wrote his memories, which were published in 1889 under the title The Outposts during the Siege of Paris. Having distinguished himself as a simple soldier, he received the Legion of Honour on August 9, 1870. He was also mentioned in the Journal officiel, on December 8, 1870, and decorated with the military medal.[5]

Back to civilian life, Robinet de Cléry was appointed public prosecutor at the High Court of Lille in 1871, where he was reputed to be very firm and showed extreme zeal in the investigation of trials related to the war contracts scandal.[6] Continuing his career as a magistrate, he was successively appointed public prosecutor in Lyon in 1874, then public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation in 1876. At the end of 1877, he was approached to become Minister of Justice in a government of conservative resistance after the electoral victory of the Republicans.[6]

Dismissed from his high functions for disagreement with the religious policy of the government, he left the judiciary and joined the bar. His reputation and his talent brought him to intervene in resounding trials, such as those of General Cissey[7] and the General Union. He successfully defended Abbé Louis Mulot (1820–1899), priest of the Saint-Leu Church in Amiens, suspected of public indecency for having allegedly given "naturalist lessons" to children.[8] He was also the lawyer of Mélanie Calvat in the dispute that opposed her to Cardinal Perraud.[9]

A man of great culture, the following anecdote, reported in the Souvenirs d'un président d'assises (1880–1890) by Anatole Bérard des Glajeux, very likely concerns him: "Pressed by these inenarrable contradictions of human nature, a very distinguished lawyer of the Court of Paris, a man of letters and infinitely witty, Mr. Cléry, who was defending before me at the court of assizes of the Seine a writer accused of outrage to public morals and decency, approached the jury and quoted them in a half-voice the following line of Alfred de Musset, a strange line which marked at a certain time in the elegant and somewhat musky poetry of the singer of the nights: every man has in his heart a sleeping pig. In what we see in the court of assizes, the awakening of the animal is terrible, and not to take it into account is to want to make an autopsy without knowing the anatomy of the human body".[10]

A passionate legitimist, he wrote several publications denouncing the claims of the House of Orléans to the throne of France. He was a member of the association of catholic jurisconsults, founded in 1872, notably to oppose the secularization of law, and published several articles in the association's review.[11]

Adrien Robinet de Cléry died on September 13, 1914 in Anhée, Belgium,[12] victim of the bombardment of the house where he lived,[13][14] at the beginning of the World War I (after the Battle of the Marne).

Private life

He was the father of French historian and academic Adrien Robinet de Cléry (1891–1974). One of his daughters, Marie, married the Belgian historian Victor Brants.[15]

Works

  • "Comparution volontaire du prévenu devant le tribunal correctionnel. Régularité de cette procédure, ses avantages," Le Journal du ministère public, Vol. X (1867), pp. 165–68, 267–76.
  • Les Magistrats Bourgouignons au Parlement de Metz et au Conseil souverain d'Alsace (1874)
  • La Question de Chambord au point de vue du droit (1886)
  • Les avant-postes pendant le siège de Paris (1887)
  • Des droits et obligations du Parquet (1888)
  • D'Essling à Wagram: Lasalle (1891)[16]
  • "Les statues décapitées du pont de la Concorde," La Grande Revue de Paris et de Saint-Pétersbourg (1892)
  • Les crimes d'empoisonnement (1894)
  • "En Tyrol," Revue politique et littéraire: revue bleue (1897)
  • Les Iles Normandes, Pays de Home Rule (1898; 2017)
  • Première occupation de la Lorraine par les Français, 1632-1641 (1900)
  • Gustave de Reiset, Mes souvenirs (1901; preface)
  • Dun à travers l'histoire : Le siège de Dun au xvie siècle (1904)
  • "Bénigne Bossuet à Ensisheim," Bulletin du Musée Historique de Mulhouse, Vol. XXIX (1905)
  • Les deux fusions (1870-1873) (1908)
  • Les Prétentions dynastiques de la branche d'Orléans, deux lettres du Révérend Père Bole, aumônier de Frohsdorf (1910; preface by Boissy d'Anglas)
  • "Les Ancêtres de la nouvelle princesse Marie-Clotilde Napoléon," La Plume, No. 385 (1912)
  • Lamacq Une famille de patriotes Les Lamacq - Le général Offenstein - Le général Munier (1911)

Notes

  1. ↑ The surname Robinet means "man of the robe".
  2. ↑ Adrien's birth certificate is signed "Eugène Robinet de Cléry".
  3. ↑ Blache, Édouard (1893). Le Premier Président Robinet de Cléry. Nancy: Imp. de Berger-Levrault.
  4. ↑ J.F., "Note du jour: Un revenant," Le Libéral, 8e année, No. 877‎ (15 mars 1909), p. 1.
  5. ↑ Lonlay, Dick de (1888). Histoire anecdotique de la guerre de 1870-1871. Gravelotte, Rézonville, Vionville, Mars-la-Tour, Saint-Marcel, Flavigny. Paris: Garnier, p. 69.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ménager, Bernard (2003). "Quand l'intendance ne suivait pas. Le scandale des marchés de guerre passés dans le département du Nord pendant la guerre de 1870," Revue du Nord, No 350,‎ pp. 347–58.
  7. ↑ "L'affaire de Cissey," Le Petit Méridional, 5e année, No 1660‎ (25 octobre 1880), p. 1.
  8. ↑ Drumont, Édouard (1895). La France Juive. Paris: Victor Palmé, pp. 473–74.
  9. ↑ Schmid, A. (1898). Mélanie, bergère de la Salette et le Cardinal Perraud: procès civil et religieux…, Cour d'appel de Dijon. Paris: Chamuel.
  10. ↑ Bérard des Glajeux, Anatole (1893). Souvenirs d'un président d'assises (1880-1890). Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, pp. 87–88.
  11. ↑ Fillon, Catherine; Arnaud Lecompte & Marc Boninchi (2016). Devenir juge: Modes de recrutement et crises des vocations de 1830 à nos jours. Paris: PUF, note 46.
  12. ↑ "Mort de M. Robinet de Cléry," L'indépendance belge, 86e année, No 362‎ (20 janvier 1915), p. 3.
  13. ↑ The French press announced on January 17, 1915 (in Le Figaro, under the pen of Sérigny) the death of Robinet de Cléry in "Aubray-sur-Meuse", without realizing that this town did not exist; it was a poor transcription of the name of the town of Anhée (also called Anhée-sur-Meuse). See Sérigny, "Le Monde & la Ville: Deuil," Le Figaro, 60e année, No. 17‎ (17 janvier 1915), p. 3.
  14. ↑ Robert, Max (janvier-février-mars 1915). "Robinet de Cléry," La légitimité, 33e année, Nos 1-2-3, pp. 174–75.
  15. ↑ "À travers Paris," Le Figaro, 50e année, No 361‎ (26 décembre 1884), p. 1.
  16. ↑ Lasalle was related to the maternal family of Adrien Robinet de Cléry, whose great-grandmother was his second cousin (see family tree at the end of the book.

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