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Cambacérès, Jean Jacques Régis de (zhäN zhäk rāzhēs` də käNbäsārĕs`), 1753–1824, French revolutionary and legislator. He was deputy to the National Convention and to the Council of Five Hundred, second consul under Napoleon (1799–1804), and archchancellor of the empire. Throughout his career, his chief interest was in developing the principles of revolutionary jurisprudence. He played a major part in the preparation of the Code Napoléon Code Napoléon (kôd näpôlāôN`) or Code Civil
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1808, Cambacérès was made duke of Parma. Minister of justice in the Hundred Days Hundred Days, name given to the period after the return of the deposed French emperor, Napoleon I , from Elba. The Hundred Days are counted from Mar. 20, 1815, when Napoleon arrived in Paris, to June 28, 1815, when Louis XVIII was restored for the second time as
..... Click the link for more information. (1815), he was exiled after the restoration of the monarchy until 1818.