DUPIN, ANDRP.-MARIE-JEAN-JACQUES, a French statesman and lawyer, was b. 1st Feb., 1783, at Varzy, in the department of Nievre, and studied in Paris. In 1815, he was elected a member of the chamber of representatives, when he opposed the motion for proclaiming Napoleon IL successor to the throne. During the same year, he pub lished his treatise, Sur be Libre Defense des Accuses. The attention excited by this work procured him the honor of defending marshal Nev, and afterwards the English officers, Wilson, Bruce, and Hutchinson, accused of having favored Lavalette's escape. He had also the honor to defend the poet Berangerin 1821. From 1825 to 1829, he was the advocate of the liberal party. In his pamphlet, La Revolution de 1830, he endeavored to prove the legal character of this revolution; and on the question being mooted whether the new king should assume the title of Philippe VII., D. declared " that the duke of Orleans was called to the throne not because he was a Bourbon, but although he was a Bourbon, and on the condition that he should not follow in the footsteps of his predecessors." After havirfg been appointed to various important offices by the new government, D. found it necessary to pass over to the opposition, and was eight times chosen president of the chamber of deputies. On the revolution of 1848, he urged (but unsuccessfully) the chamber to proclaim the comte de Paris king of the French, with the duchess of Orleans regent during his minority. In consequence of the confis cation of the Orleans estates in 1852, D. resigned his place, and retired for a time from public life; but in 1857, he consented to resume his previous office of procureur-general of the court of Cassation. He is the author of many important works, mostly on legal
questions, among which may be mentioned his Manuel du Droll Ecclesiastigue Francais, which had the high honor of being censured by the congregation of the Index at Rome. In 1853 appeared his Le Marmt; Topograph.ie, Agriculture, Mceurs des Habitants, Etat Ancien, Etat Actuel; and in 1857, Regles Generates de Droll et de lfarale dries de l'Ecritit re Sainte. D. died in 1865.
FRANcOIS-PIERRE-CHARLEB, Baron, a French economist, brother to the pre ceding, was born at Varzy, in the department of Nievre, 6th Oct., 1784, and educated at the polytechnic school, Paris. Duren' the empire, he was actively employed as an engineer. Between 1816 and 1819, he made several visits to England and Ireland, to study the great works of construction in those countries. The results of his investigations appeared in his Voyages dens la Grande Bretagne (6 vols., Paris, 1820-24, with atlas)— a comprehensive statement of the advantages and defects of British internal administra tion, exhibiting in a popular form a complete view of the roads, canals, aqueducts, bridges, ports, etc., of this country. D. was about this time appointed member of the academic des sciences, and in 1824 was raised to the rank of baron. In 1828, he was elected deputy for the department of Tarn, and he took part with the liberal opposition. After the Feb. revolution of 1848, D. was elected member of the constituent assembly by the department of Seine-Inferieure. After the coup d'itat, he became a senator of the empire. D. published a multitude of works on geometry, naval affairs, commerce, etc. He died in 1873.