Dupin, Andr

É MARIE JEAN JACQUES, ( dōō'pang,) a distinguished French jurist and statesman, B. at Varyz, dep. Nièvre, 1782. He was familiarly known as Dupin L'aine, being the eldest of three brothers, all of whom obtained distinction; and of whose mother it is related that she desired no other epitaph than this - mother of the three Dupins. André was brought up to the law, and was called to the bar in 1802. He rose to high reputation in his profe ion, and in 1811 was named member of the commi ion appointed for the cla ification of the laws of the empire. In May, 1815, he was elected deputy to the Chamber of Representatives, and with great firmne and independence resisted the last efforts of Napoleon and his adherents to save the empire. He supported the Restoration, but was soon driven by the follies and tyranny of the government to become its stout and persistent opponent. His greatest reputation as advocate was won in those days when he was the zealous and powerful defender of the freedom of the pre , and of the adherents of the fallen dynasty who were subjected to prosecution. He took part with the two Berryers in the defence of Marshal Ney; defended Sir Robert Wilson and his a ociates, who aided the escape of Lavalette; and among others also defended Gen. Savary, De Pradt, and the popular poet Béranger. One of his most celebrated efforts was the succe ful defence of the Journal des Débats, in 1829. He remained a popular leader throughout the reign of Charles X., and was the vigorous opponent of the Polignac ministry. In the measures for the elevation of Louis Philippe, Duke d'Orleans, to the throne, he took an influential part; and the king, whose consulting lawyer he had been since 1820, rewarded him with the appointment of ProcureurGénéral to the Court of Ca ation, which he held for twenty-two years. He was a firm supporter of the gov ernment, and made himself unpopular by condemning revolutionary exce es. In 1832 he was chosen president of the Chamber of Deputies, and was annually re-elected till 1840. At the revolution of Feb., 1848, it was D. who presented the young Comte de Paris to the Chamber of Deputies, and proposed his election as king under the regency of the Duche of Orleans. He was an active member of the Constituent, and afterwards of the Legislative, A embly; and was president of the latter. He remained pa ive at the Coup d'Etat of 2d Dec., 1851, but on the confiscation of the property of the Orleans family, he resigned his post of Procureur-Général, and retired from public life. To the surprise of his friends he resumed it, and became a senator in 1857; thus lending the weight of his name and character to the system of Napoleonic imperialism. He justified his position by saying that he had ever belonged to France, but never to any political parties. D. was Grand Cro of the Legion of Honor from 1837, member of the French Academy since 1832, and member of the Institute. D. at Paris, 1865. D., CHARLES, BARON, brother of the above, в. 1784. He entered the French navy in 1803, as an engineer, and became profe or of mechanics and the physical sciences in the Ionian Academy, which he a isted in forming, at Corfu. In 1812, he returned to Paris, and, in 1813, instituted the Maritime Museum at Toulon. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1828, and when the change of 1848 was effected, he became a representative in the Constituent a embly, and also in the Legislative A embly. After the revolution of 1851, he became a senator. He has written a great number of important works connected with the science of engineering. D. 1873.