Abstract
Between the bar and the parliamentary floor. the secretaries (officers) of the paris bar trainees' conference and parliamentary activity in the 19th century. Since the Restoration (1815), the Paris Bar Association Trainees Conference has been one of the agencies in which lawyers have displayed their political leadership vocation. This claim has been based on the development of know-how and skills related to the exercise of their profession. These have been linked to its specific features, the professional practice of eloquence and law, and also to the apprenticeship of the particular modes of public debate and parliamentary deliberation. The "secretaries" have been the promoters of a specialized definition of political activity, while the competition for power has remained dominated by the logic of "notable" leadership described by Max Weber.