Jacques Pierre Abbatucci (politician)

He began his professional life as a lawyer, finally becoming procureur du roi at Sartène in January 1816, conseiller to the royal court of Bastia in March 1819 and président de chambre to the court of Orléans in September 1830.

Under the July Monarchy, he was an important member of the opposition, close to Odilon Barrot.

Under the Second French Empire, in his role as garde des sceaux, he presided over the council of ministers in the emperor's absence.

From 1852 to his death in 1857, he was a senator and an official councillor to Napoleon III, who made him chargé des affaires for Corsica, in which role he originated a large part of the immense progress the island realised under the Second Empire.

[2] His son, Jean-Charles Abbatucci (1816–85), was also a deputy under the July Monarchy, and again under the French Third Republic.