Périer, Casimir, a French banker and politician, born at Grenoble; took part in the Revolution of 1830, became Minister of the Interior in 1831; suppressed the insurrections at Paris and Lyons; died of cholera (1777‒1832).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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