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Author, Lawyer, judge, Politician in the French Ancien Régime
Born Chrétien Guillaume de LAMOIGNON de MALESHERBES
French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI
Born on December 06, 1721 in Paris, France , France
Died on April 22, 1794 in Paris, France
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In 1771 he was called upon to mix in politics; the parlements of France had been dissolved, and a new method of administering justice devised by Maupeou, which was in itself commendable as tending to the better and quicker administration of justice, but pernicious as exhibiting a tendency to over-centralization, and as abolishing the hereditary "nobility of the robe", which, with all its faults, had from its nature preserved some independence, and been a check on the royal power. Malesherbes presented a strong remonstrance against the new system, and was at once banished to his country seat at Malesherbes, to be recalled, however, with the old parlement on the accession of Louis XVI, and to be made minister of the maison du roi in 1775.
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