Excerpt from New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8 of 12: Projected and Partly Arranged Gerbier, (peter John Baptist, ) a celebrated French lawyer, distinguished for the eloquence of his pleadings, born at Rennes in 1725. After a careful domestic education under able masters invited from Holland, he was sent to the college dc Beauvais at Paris, where he pursued his studies under MM. Coflin and Rivard. At the age of seventeen he took his degree; but he did not commence prsc tice as an advocate until his twenty seventh year, when be excited general admiration. One of the most famous causes in which he was concerned was that of the brothers Lyoncy, merchants of Marseilles, against the J esuits, which issued in the overthrow of that society. No writings of Gerbier remain but his oratory is said to be unsurpassed in the annals of the French bar. He died in 1788. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.