biography
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Cambacérès, Jean Jacques Régis de
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pronunciation:
[kãbasayres]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1753–1824)
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| biography:
| Lawyer, born in Montpellier, S France. He became arch-chancellor of the French Empire (1804) and Duke of Parma (1808). As Napoleon's chief legal adviser he was a moderating influence; his civil code formed the basis of the Code Napoléon or Code Civil (1894), and subsequent codes. |
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