Cambaceres

Jean ——— de, a French Senator; born in Montpellier, Oct. 18, 1753. During the reign of terror which followed the condemnation of Louis XVI. Cambaceres endeavored to check the arbitrary measures of the A embly. He was a member of the Council of Five Hundred, and in 1796 drew up a “ Plan of a Civil Code,” which became the basis of the “Napoleonic Code.” On the abdication of Napoleon, in 1814, Cambaceres withdrew into private life, but on the return of the emperor from Elba, he was promoted to the office of Minister of Justice. After the overthrow of Napoleon, he was banished from France on the ground of his having voted for the death of Louis XVI.; but in 1818 was reinstated in all his civil and political rights; he died, in Paris, March 8, 1824.