Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
- 17 December 1859,
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
) was a French lawyer, politician, and writer.
Biography
Camille Paganel was born in Paris on 26 August 1795. The son of Pierre Paganel, a member of the
French Convention
The National Convention () was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly (France), N ...
, Camille Paganel began his career as a lawyer in 1816. He aligned himself with the
July Monarchy
The July Monarchy (), officially the ''Kingdom of France'' (), was a liberalism, liberal constitutional monarchy in France under , starting on 9 August 1830, after the revolutionary victory of the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 26 Februar ...
and held various positions in the legal and political spheres. Paganel served as a substitute judge at the first instance court of the
Seine
The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plat ...
in 1830 and later became a Master of Requests at the
Conseil d'État
In France, the (; Council of State) is a governmental body that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice, which is one of the two branches of the French judiciary system. Establ ...
in 1832. From 1834 to 1846, he represented
Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne (, ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019. *''De l'Espagne et de la liberté'', 182 *''Théodora, ou la Famille chrétienne'', 182 *''Histoire de Frédéric-Le-Grand'', 1830
*''Essai sur l'établissement monarchique de Napoléon'', 183 *''Histoire de Scanderbeg, ou Turks et Chrétiens au XVe siècle,'' 1855