Jacques-Joseph Corbière

Jacques Joseph Guillaume François Pierre, comte de Corbière (22 May 1766 – 12 January 1853) was a French lawyer who became Minister of the Interior.

[2] Corbière was charged as a lawyer with managing the estate of Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, president of the National Constituent Assembly, who had died by the guillotine in 1794.

[2][1] On 10 Nivôse in the year VIII he married le Chapelier's widow, Marie-Esther de la Marre, said to be the most beautiful woman in Rennes.

The brilliant match helped advance his career, and under the First French Empire he became president of the general council of Ille-et-Vilaine.

In face of growing liberal and irreligious views among college students, Corbière suppressed the École Normale in Paris and other faculties.

[2] Corbière fired many personnel, fought liberal education and freedom of the press, tried several times to reestablish censorship, and in 1824 tried to buy all the ultra-royalist newspapers, which gave his department difficulty but were hard to prosecute.

The same day he was made a Minister of State, member of the privy council, knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit and a peer of France.

[2] Corbière refused to give swear allegiance to Louis Philippe I after the July Revolution of 1830, and left the chamber of peers.