Ernest Pinard

Pierre Ernest Pinard
Ernest Pinard by Bayard and Bertall
Born(1822-10-10)10 October 1822
Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France
Died12 September 1909(1909-09-12) (aged 86)
Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationPolitician

Pierre Ernest Pinard (10 October 1822 – 12 September 1909) was a French prosecutor and Minister of the Interior. He is known for his indictments against Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.