Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis

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Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (1 April 1746 – 25 August 1807) was a French

Joseph Marie Portalis
, was a diplomat and statesman.

Biography

Early years

Portalis was born at

Emile: Or, On Education) in 1763 and Des Préjugés in 1764.[2]

In 1765 he became a

Protestants. From 1778 to 1781, Portalis was one of the four assessors or administrators of Provence.[2]

Revolution

In November 1793, after the

Federalists in Provence. He was soon released to a maison de santé, where he remained until the fall of Maximilien Robespierre during the Thermidorian Reaction.[2]

On being released he practised as a lawyer in Paris, and, in 1795, he was elected by the capital to the

Napoleon Bonaparte established himself as the leader of the new Consulate.[2]

Under Napoleon

Bonaparte made him a

Code Civil. Of this commission he was the most notable member, and many of the most important titles, notably those on marriage and heirship, are his work.[3] He gave a famous speech, "Discours préliminaire au projet de code civil" in which he presented the core principles of the civil code: legal certainty
(non-retroactivity), the notion of "ordre public" and the forbidding of the "arrêt de règlement" which was a characteristic production of the Ancien Régime's judges and was contrary to the idea that only the law prevails.

In 1801 he was placed in charge of the Department of Religion or Public Worship, and in that capacity had the chief share in drawing up the provisions of the

Académie française, in 1804 Minister of Public Worship, and in 1805 a Chevalier Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. He soon after became totally blind, and, after an operation, he died at Paris.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis | Napoleonic Code, Code Civil & French Revolution | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  2. ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911, p. 110.
  3. ^ "Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis | Napoleonic Code, Code Civil & French Revolution | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 110–111.

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