Linguet avocat
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Abstract EN:
Linguet, barrister between 1764 and 1774, by his method, by his talent, conquest an important practice. Without doubt, the first barrister of his time, he is also a perfect withness of a changing society, just before the revolution, by the affairs he treated: chevalier de la barre, duc d aiguillon, civil rights for the protestant communauty, etc. Many successes, two virulent style, made his colleagues jealous. By his heterodox works, the magistrated and the philosophers quickly hated him. They also leagued to strike him out of the corporation of barristers. Nevertheless, he remains one of the great founders of the modern method for the barristers, and an example.
Abstract FR:
Avocat de 1764 a 1774, par une methode nouvelle fondee sur de veritables enquestes, par son talent a emouvoir l opinion publique, linguet se constitua une importante clientele. Sans aucun doute le premier avocat de son temps, c est egalement le parfait temoin d une societe en pleine mutation, juste avant la revolution, au regard des dossiers qu il traite: chevalier de la barre, duc d aiguillon, etat-civil des protestants, etc. Ses nombreux succes, un style trop virulent, exciterent la jalousie de ses confreres. Ses ecrits theoriques, tres heterodoxes, le firent hair aussi bien des magistrats que des philosophes. Tous se liguerent pour le faire radier du tableau de l ordre des avocats. Il faut pourtant considerer linguet comme le fondateur du barreau moderne.