Louis-Joseph Faure (5 March 1760 – 12 June 1837) was a French jurist and

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who was one of the four authors of the Napoleonic Code. He was born in

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and became a judge in

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in 1791. On 18 February 1792 he was elected as assistant to

Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman who became one of the best-known, influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Esta ...

, the "public accuser" of the Tribunal criminel.Annales patriotiques et littéraires de la France, et affaires politiques de l’Europe, 18 février 1792 He was a deputy prosecutor of the Seine, and then a member of the

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and later the

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. 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.

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*''Dictionnaire Bouillet'' First French Empire 19th-century French judges 20th-century French judges People of the French Revolution 1760 births 1837 deaths {{France-law-bio-stub