Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis

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Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis was a prominent French jurist and statesman best known as a principal architect of the Napoleonic Code and a key figure in shaping modern civil law.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf French lawyer
French politician
human
jurist
legal philosopher
statesman
burialPlace Panthéon, Paris
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1746-04-01
dateOfDeath 1807-08-25
educatedAt Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence
University of Aix-en-Provence
era Enlightenment
familyName Portalis
fieldOfWork canon law
civil law
jurisprudence
legal codification
givenName Jean-Étienne-Marie
hasAcademicDegree doctor of law
influenced codification movements in Latin America
development of civil law in continental Europe
knownFor contribution to modern civil law
principal architect of the Napoleonic Code
role in drafting the French Civil Code
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Conseil d'État (France)
movement French legal classicism
name Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
notableWork Discours préliminaire du projet de code civil
occupation jurist
lawyer
legal scholar
politician
statesman
participatedIn drafting of the Napoleonic Code
negotiation and implementation of the Concordat of 1801
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Le Beausset
Provence
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placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld Conseiller d'État
Minister of Public Worship
member of the Council of State of France
religion Roman Catholicism
workLocation Aix-en-Provence
Paris

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Napoleonic Code
draftedBy
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
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