Pierre Marie (de Saint-Georges)
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Pierre Marie or Alexandre-Pierre-Thomas-Amable Marie de Saint Georges was a French
France
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 politician
Politician
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, fought on the barricades during the revolution of July
July Revolution
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution or in French, saw the overthrow of King Charles X of France, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who himself, after 18 precarious years on the throne, would in turn be overthrown...

.

Marie was born in Yonne
Yonne
Yonne is a French department named after the Yonne River. It is one of the four constituent departments of Burgundy in eastern France and its prefecture is Auxerre. Its official number is 89....

 on February 15, 1795 and entered public life as a lawyer under the Restoration
Bourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon  – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...

. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1842 and held the seat until the February Revolution.

He became minister of public works in the provision government in 1848, but was forced out in May of that year. Marie was elected to the Executive Commission
French Executive Commission (1848)
The Executive Commission of the French Republic was a short-lived body and jointly head of state of France during the Second Republic. All members were equal and served together as co-heads of state.The Commission acted as head of state from May 10 to June 24, 1848, between governments of...

and became President of the National Assembly during June 1848. He was then made minister of justice in July 1848 and held the post till December 1848. Marie retired in May 1849 and retired to private life for over a decade. He returned briefly to politics in the 1860s and died on April 28, 1870.
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