François Denis Tronchet

François Denis Tronchet ( born March 23, 1726 Paris, † March 10, 1806 ) was a French jurist.

Life

Tronchet was admitted to the bar in 1745 and attorney at the Parliament of Paris, where his father was prosecutor ( procureur ). On 13 May 1789 he was elected as a deputy in the Estates General ( États Généreaux ). He opposed in vain the transfer of the Estates-General in the Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ) and then there fell on particularly through its commitment to the introduction of jury trials in civil cases. In the French Revolution, but he defended in December 1792 to January 1793 Raymond de Sèze and Chrétien -Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes courageous and skilled, ultimately in vain to King Louis XVI. before the National Convention. During the Board, he was from 1800 to 1804 Member of the "Council of the ancients " ( Conseil des Anciens ), where he sought in vain to prevent that judges shall be chosen by the executive. Under the Consulate he was also President of the Supreme Court ( " Tribunal de Cassation " ) and was on the final version of the " Civil Code " - the first civil code - involved in the Jean -Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Commission. He sat down beside it for a jurisdiction, which is based on precedents, unlike some of his colleagues who were arrested in Roman Law. He was also instrumental in the drafting of the law of succession and mortgage law concerned paragraphs. In 1801 he became a senator of the Somme.

After his death he was buried ( the first senator of the "Empire" ) on March 17, 1806 Pantheon.