François Mugnier

François Mugnier (26 April 1831 – March 1904) was a savoyard magistrate, who ended his career as a counselor at the Chambéry Court of Appeal. A specialist in the literary and political history of Savoy, he became president of the Société savoisienne d'histoire et d'archéologie (1882–1904).

Biography

François Mugnier was born at Rumilly, in the Duchy of Savoy. He was the son of François Mugnier. He began classical studies at the college of the capital of Albanais before continuing in the second year of philosophy at the national college of Chambéry.

He continued his law studies in Turin, capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, where he obtained his doctorate in civil and canon law from the University of Turin on July 18, 1854.

Mugnier began his career as a judge in Lanslebourg (1856), then as a magistrate of the Kingdom, and as assistant judge at the civil court of Chambéry (1857). On the eve of the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy with France, he was made substitute for the King's Attorney on May 1, 1860.

He obtained various positions outside his province: substitute in Valence (Drôme), then imperial prosecutor in Embrun (1863), in Die (1866), in Vienne (1867), public prosecutor in Annecy (1870), substitute for the public prosecutor (1874) then counselor (1875) in Aix. He returned to Savoy in 1878, where he became a counselor at the Court of Appeal of Chambéry.

Member of the Société savoisienne d'histoire et d'archéologie since 1855, he became its president from February 22, 1882 until his death. He was the author of works on Savoy, notably in the bulletin of the Society. He retired in 1902 and became honorary president.

He died on March 22, 1904 in Chambéry. His son-in-law, Colonel Roux, donated his father-in-law's papers to the Archives of Haute-Savoie.

Works

• Chronologies pour les études historiques en Savoie (1884)
• Petites Annales d'Annecy (1598-1628) , publiées et annotées (1885)
• Les Savoyards en Angleterre au xiiie siècle et Pierre d'Aigueblanche évêque d'Héreford (1890)
• Les manuscrits à miniatures de la maison de Savoie : le bréviaire de Marie de Savoie, duchesse de Milan, les heures des ducs Louis et Amédée IX (1894)
• Marc-Claude de Buttet, poète savoisien (XVIe siècle). Sa vie, ses œuvres poétiques en prose et en français. L'Apologie Pour la Savoie (1896)
• La vie et les poésies de Jean de Boyssoné, professeur de droit à Toulouse et à Grenoble, conseiller au Parlement de Chambéry (1897)
• Nouvelles lettres de Madame de Warens: Suisse et Savoie, 1722-1760 (1900)

References

• Miquet, François (1896). "Les Savoyards au XIXe Siècle: Les Premiers Présidents et les Procureurs Généraux," Revue Savoisienne, 37me Année, pp. 204–27.

External links

• Works by François Mugnier at Gallica