Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target native language French
Biography
Born in Paris, Target was the son of a lawyer, and was himself a lawyer to the Parlement of Paris. He acquired a great reputation as a lawyer, less by practice in the courts than in a consultative capacity, and served the ancien régime as member of a committee to revise the civil and criminal laws of the kingdom. He strenuously opposed the "parlement Maupeou", devised by Chancellor Maupeou to replace the old judiciary bodies in 1771, refusing to plead before it, an act that earned him the sobriquet of the "Virgin of the palace".He was counsel for Louis René Edouard, cardinal de Rohan in the "affair of the diamond necklace".In 1785, he was elected to the Académie française.He contributed to the development of the Edict of Tolerance signed at Versailles by Louis XVI in 1787.
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