Joseph Jérôme Siméon
Count Joseph Jérôme Siméon (30 September 1749 – 19 January 1842) was a French jurist and politician. His son, Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon, was a noted diplomat. Life Revolution Born in Aix-en-Provence, he was the son of Joseph-Sextius Siméon (1717–1788), a professor of Law and royal secretary for the ''parlement'' of Provence. Joseph Jérôme Siméon followed his father's profession, but he was a pursued under the Reign of Terror for his share in the Girondist movement in 1793, and only returned to France after the Thermidorian Reaction. A deputy in the Council of the Five Hundred, he sided with the Conservatism, conservative side. In 1797, for protesting against the Coup of 18 Fructidor, he was imprisoned until the Napoleon Bonaparte's Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November). In the Tribunat, Tribunate, Siméon had an important share in the preparation of the Napoleonic Code, being rewarded by a seat in the ''Council of State (France), Conseil d'État'' of the French Con ...
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