Etienne Denis Pasquier, duke, a French statesman, of the same family with the preceding, born in Paris, April 22, 1767, died there, July 5, 1862. Before he became of age he was appointed councillor in the parliament of Paris. His father was beheaded during the revolution, and he himself was imprisoned. Under the empire he became successively master of requests in the council of state, councillor, procureur general du sceau et des titres, and prefect of police. Charged by Napoleon with neglect of duty at the time of the conspiracy of Malet in 1812, he was acquitted on trial, and kept in office until the first restoration, when Louis XVIII. appointed him director general of roads and bridges. He stood aloof during the hundred days, and after the second restoration was keeper of the seals and temporary minister of the interior in the cabinet of Talleyrand in 1815, minister of justice in that of Richelieu in 1817, and of foreign affairs in that of Decazes in 1819. He adhered to the revolution of July, 1830, and Louis Philippe made him president of the chamber of peers, with the honorary title of chancellor of France. He had been made a baron by Napoleon, became a count under the restoration, and finally in 1844 received the title of duke from Louis Philippe. Although he published nothing but a collection of discourses delivered in his capacity of minister or peer from 1814 to 1836 (4 vols. 8vo, 1842), he was in 1842 elected a member of the French academy.

He left voluminous memoirs. - His grandnephew and adopted son is the present duke Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier, brother-in-law of Casimir Perier, an influential statesman, and in 1875 president of the national assembly.