Malesherbes

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Malesherbes was a prominent French statesman and lawyer best known for courageously defending King Louis XVI during his revolutionary trial.

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Label Occurrences
Malesherbes canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment figure
French statesman
government minister
human
jurist
lawyer
associatedWith Ancien Régime France
French Revolution NERFINISHED
birthCountry Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
birthDate 1721-12-06
birthPlace Paris
burialPlace Picpus Cemetery NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath execution by guillotine
child Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (son, magistrate) NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
deathCountry French First Republic NERFINISHED
deathDate 1794-04-22
deathPlace Paris
defended Louis XVI of France NERFINISHED
era Age of Enlightenment NERFINISHED
executedBy Revolutionary Tribunal NERFINISHED
familyName de Lamoignon NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork administrative law
censorship policy
public law
fullName Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes NERFINISHED
givenName Guillaume-Chrétien NERFINISHED
ideology Enlightenment liberalism NERFINISHED
moderate monarchism
knownFor defending King Louis XVI during his trial before the National Convention
opposition to abuses of royal authority
protection of Enlightenment writers
support for freedom of the press
languageSpoken French
memberOf Lamoignon family NERFINISHED
nobleTitle seigneur de Malesherbes
occupation censor
lawyer
magistrate
statesman
opposedBy radical revolutionaries
parent Guillaume de Lamoignon de Blancmesnil NERFINISHED
participatedIn trial of Louis XVI
positionHeld director of the Librairie (royal book censorship)
member of the King’s Council
minister of the Maison du Roi
president of the Cour des Aides
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Françoise-Charlotte Le Peletier de Rosanbo NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Malesherbes
Description of subject: Malesherbes was a prominent French statesman and lawyer best known for courageously defending King Louis XVI during his revolutionary trial.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Trial of Louis XVI defenseCounsel Malesherbes
Errancis Cemetery, Paris notableBurials Malesherbes
subject surface form: Errancis Cemetery