If he followed lecture-courses it was not because he was obliged to, but voluntarily, because he was interested and because he profited by it .-- Chancellor Pasquier was magistrate at seventeen (in 1784), attended at the lycee the lectures of Garat, La Harpe, Fourcroy and Duparcieux and, daily, at table or in the evening, listened to his father and his friends discussing matters which, in the morning, had been argued in the Palais de Justice or in the Grand-Chambre.

He imbibed a taste for his profession.

Along with two or three prominent advocates and other young magistrates like himself, he inscribed his name for lectures at the house of the first president of the first court of inquiry.

Meanwhile, he went every evening into society; he saw there with his own eyes the ways and interests of men and women.

On the other hand, at the Palais de Justice, a conseiller- ecoutant he sat for five years, alongside of the conseiller-juges and often, the reporter of a case, he gave his opinion.