Henri-Robert
Henri-Robert (4 September 1863 – 12 May 1936) was a French lawyer, historian, and member of the Académie française in 1923.
Born of unknown parents and probably illegitimate, Henri-Robert was admitted to the Paris bar in 1885 and rose to become a celebrated criminal defense lawyer. He defended a young woman named Gabrielle Bompard in a sensational 1889 murder trial, calling in Georges Gilles de la Tourette as an expert witness on hypnotism.[1] He also defended the fraudster Thérèse Humbert, and the serial child killer Jeanne Weber, twice.[2] In 1903, a Paris correspondent for The New York Times described him as "an exceptionally successful lawyer... the favorite advocate of the criminal classes (who) has already saved innumerable heads from the guillotine".[3]
From 1913 through 1919, he was President of the Paris Bar. After the First World War, Henri-Robert turned his focus to civil litigation and to the production of books on historical topics such as Mary Stuart, Henry VIII, Catherine de Médici, Marie-Antoinette, and Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars.
Henri-Robert's daughter Jeanne Henri-Robert married the future French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud in 1912.
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- Jean Sirmond (1634)
- Jean de Montereul (1649)
- François Tallemant l'Aîné (1651)
- Simon de la Loubère (1693)
- Claude Sallier (1729)
- Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (1761)
- Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1784)
- Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1803)
- Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1816)
- Bon-Joseph Dacier (1822)
- Pierre François Tissot (1833)
- Félix Dupanloup (1854)
- Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1878)
- Alexandre Ribot (1906)
- Henri-Robert (1923)
- Charles Maurras (1938)
- Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix (1953)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1983)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (2003)