Jean Jacques Régis de CAMBACERES (1753-1824) Rare autograph - Lot 92

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Jean Jacques Régis de CAMBACERES (1753-1824) Rare autograph - Lot 92
Jean Jacques Régis de CAMBACERES (1753-1824) Rare autograph will of 4 pages, made in Brussels around November 1818. It would be the first state of the testament of the former arch-chancellor, with many erasures and corrections. Cambacérès affirms his faith in it, gives numerous legacies to churches and charitable institutions in the Montpellier and Paris region, and distributes pensions to his servants and servants. A.B.E. Biography: Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès French statesman and jurist (Montpellier 1753-Paris 1824). Councillor at the Court of Auditors of Montpellier (1771), editor of the notebooks of the nobility of Montpellier, president of the criminal court of Herault (1789), he was elected deputy at the Convention (1792), where he voted, but with reservations, for the death of the king (1793). He stigmatized Dumouriez's betrayal, demanded the arrest of the Girondins, then abstained from political activity. Very quickly, he set about drawing up the Civil Code, the first sketches of which he presented in August and October 1793. After the 9-Thermidor, he became president of the Assembly and distinguished himself by his moderation towards the robespierrists and the former Girondins. Member of the Council of Five Hundred, Minister of Justice after 30-Prairial (18 June 1799), he was chosen by Sieyès, and at Bonaparte's request, as second consul. Facing Lebrun, a man of the Ancien Régime, he embodies the revolutionary tradition. Archchancellor of the Empire (1804), Duke of Parma (1808), adviser to Napoleon I, he nevertheless rallied to the Bourbons in 1814, but resumed his duties in spite of himself during the Hundred Days. Exiled in 1815 as a regicide, he returned to France in 1818.
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