Jean Jacques Cambaceres
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Cambacérès, Jean Jacques [Prince] (18 October 1753 - 8 March 1824)
Cambacérès was a French statesman, a distinguished lawyer who during the Revolution was President of the Convention and one of the Council of Five Hundred.
Under Napoleon, he was one of the chief authors of the famous Code Civil, then the finest such in the world. He was made Prince, Duke of Parma, and Arch-Chancellor of the Empire.
A deist, Cambacérès was banished by Louis XVIII when the royalty and church were restored.
