Louis-Joseph Faure

Louis-Joseph Faure (5 March 1760 – 12 June 1837) was a French jurist and politician who was one of the four authors of the Napoleonic Code.

He was born in Le Havre and became a judge in Paris in 1791. On 18 February 1792 he was elected as assistant to Maximilien Robespierre, the "public accuser" of the Tribunal criminel.[1] He was a deputy prosecutor of the Seine, and then a member of the Council of Five Hundred and later the Tribunat. He became a member of the Conseil d'État in 1807. He submitted a report on the Code de procédure in 1806 and one on the Code pénal in 1810.

References
  1. Annales patriotiques et littéraires de la France, et affaires politiques de l’Europe, 18 février 1792
  • Dictionnaire Bouillet


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