Ruelle Pieraggi

François-Louis Pieraggi is a Corsican jurist and aristocrat, born on February 8, 1758 and died on June 4, 1827. He is baptized by his great-uncle the canon Matthieu de Pieraggi in the chapel of Saint Marcel of Corte today détruite. He is cousin with Napoleon I. From 1772 to 1782 he studied law at the University of Rome. On June 8, 1782 he supports his thesis and obtains the title of doctor in canon and civil law and returns à Corte.

On September 3 of the same year he married Marie-Madeleine Mariani, niece of Baron Jean-Thomas de Boërio époux of Marie-Catherine Arrighi de Casanova, aunt of the future Duke of Padua. On November 22, 1782 he becomes lawyer at the bar of the royal court of Bastia until March 1791 following the French Revolution. He is elected for six years royal judge of the District of Vico. Fervent bonapartist he follows Napoleon I, during the first empire he occupies the position of director of finances in Italy. After 1815 he returned to Corsica with his family and became a lawyer again. The pope created him knight of the order of the golden peron and count palatine. He died in Corte on June 4, 1827