François-André Isambert (November 30, 1792 – April 13, 1857) was a French lawyer, historian, and politician. Isambert was founder and for an extended period contributor of the ''Gazette des Tribunaux'' and actively participated in Louis François Wolowski's ''Revue de législation et de jurisprudence''.
Under the Bourbons and the July Revolution
Born in
Aunay-sous-Auneau
Aunay-sous-Auneau (, literally ''Aunay under Auneau'') is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department
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,
Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Second Restoration of the
Bourbons
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Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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, he worked for legislative and administrative reforms in the colonies, and was noted for his attacks on the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
He protested against the Ordinances of the year 1830 in the name of the bar, and thus sided with the
Revolution
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and the
July Monarchy
The July Monarchy (), officially the ''Kingdom of France'' (), was a liberalism, liberal constitutional monarchy in France under , starting on 9 August 1830, after the revolutionary victory of the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 26 Februar ...
. He went among the first to the town hall, where he was named by the
provisional government
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director of the ''Bulletin de Lois''. Named counsel at the cassation court on August 27, he edited the Constitutional ''Charter'', and joined the Chamber of Deputies in October of that year.
Abolition of Slavery
In the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery convention there is a figure to the left described as "M.M.Isambert" and in the centre is John Scoble the secretary of the British Anti-Slavery group who organised the convention. Francois Isambert had been in correspondence with Scoble and he was an active figure in trying to free the French slaves.French Anti-Slavery:for the abolition of slavery in France, 1802-1848 Lawrence C. Jennings, 2000, p130,
July Monarchy and 1848
Isambert voted for the government of
Jacques Laffitte
Jacques Laffitte (24 October 1767 – 26 May 1844) was a leading French banker, governor of the Bank of France (1814–1820) and liberal member of the Chamber of Deputies during the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy. He was an important fi ...
, but joined the opposition under the minister
Casimir Périer
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. In 1834, he founded the ''Société pour l'abolition de l'esclavage'', a militant
abolitionist
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organisation.
After the
Revolution of 1848
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, he was elected to the
French National Assembly
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for the
Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.department'', and joined the
Right
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in the
Constituent Assembly
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, but wasn't reelected to the legislative. 1854, he converted to
Protestantism
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; he died in
Paris
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.
Works
* ''Recueil complet des lois et ordonnances à compter du 1er avril 1814'' (Paris, 1820–30, 17 Vols.), with complete commentary
* ''Recueil général des anciennes lois francaises depuis l'an 1420 jusqu'à la révolution de 1789'' (Paris, 1821–33, 29 Vols.), a collection he published together with Jourdan, Decrusy, Armet and Taillandier
* ''Annales politiques et diplomatiques'' (Paris, 1823, 5 Vols.; 2. Ed. 1826)
* ''Essai historique sur l'étude du droit naturel, du droit public et du droit des gens'' (Paris, 1826)
* ''Code électoral et municipal'' (2. Ed., Paris, 1831, 3 Vols.)
* ''État religieux de la France et de l'Europe'' (Paris, 1843–1844, 2 Parts)
* ''Histoire de Justinien'' (Paris, 1856, 2 Vols.)
* ''Anecdota'' (Paris, 1856), a translation of
Procopius
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* ''Pandectes françaises'' (Paris, 1834, 2 Vols.), a complete collection of French laws, decrees and records up to his time, written for practical use, have remained unfinished.
* ''Mémoire pour S. Ex. Le président de la République d'Haïti, contre M. Blanchet, avocat, sur la question morale de ce procès'' (Paris, 1827), Imprimerie de E. Duverger Manioc