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Charles-Louis Pinson de Menerville -LRB- 1808 -- 1876 -RRB- , the first president of the court of appeals in Algiers , was born in Paris on April 8 , 1808 .. Algiers. Algiers. In 1831 , just after the French conquest of Algeria , Menerville was appointed secretary of the health department of the port of Algiers .. Algiers. Algiers. Algeria. Algeria. In 1834 , he became a defence lawyer before the tribunal of Algiers .. Algiers. Algiers. In 1842 , he became a judge at Philippeville .. Philippeville. Skikda. In 1844 , when the tribunal at Bone was established , he was appointed its head .. Bone. Bone. He was named vice-president of the Algiers tribunal in 1849 and counsellor to the court in 1852 .. Algiers. Algiers. He became a chevalier of Legion d'honneur in 1858 , president of the chamber in 1864 and an officer of the order in 1869 .. He assumed the highest position in the Algerian court system on November 14 , 1874 when he became president of the court .. He was still in this post when he died suddenly in June 1876 .. He produced a three-volume Dictionnaire de la legislation algerienne , code annote et mantiel raisonne des lois , ordonnances , decrets , decisions et arretes publies au `` Bulletin officiel des actes du gouvernment '' .. In 1873 , the town of Thenia was named Menerville after him .. Thenia. Thenia. The town retained the name until a few years after independence in 1962 , when it reverted to its earlier Arabic name .. Arabic. Arabic