Jean Baptiste Treilhard

Jean-Baptiste Treilhard (1742 – 1 December 1810) was a French political figure of the revolutionary period.

Life

Early in the Revolution

Born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, he settled in Paris, where he gained reputation as a lawyer at the parlement and became a deputy to the Estates-General of 1789, then to the National Constituent Assembly - where he showed ability in dealing with the reorganization of the Roman Catholic Church and the nationalization of its property (see Civil Constitution of the Clergy).

Ineligible, like all the members of the Constituent Assembly, for the Legislative Assembly, he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was judged as lacking of firmness.

The départment of Seine-et-Oise elected him to the National Convention, where he affiliated with the group known as The Mountain and voted for the death of King Louis XVI. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and became president of the Convention on the 27 December 1792.

Directory, Consulate, and Empire

Under the Directory, he entered the Council of Five Hundred, of which he was president during the month of Nivôse, Year IV, and was a member of the Tribunal of Cassation, as well plenipotentiary at the Second Congress of Rastatt (December 1797). Treilhard became a director in the year VI.

After Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, he became president of the Court of Appeals and councillor of state during the French Consulate and Empire. He took an important part in drafting the Napoleonic codes. Treilhard died a senator and Count of the Empire.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Find-A-Grave biography

Directeurs
1798–May 1799:	Barras | La Révellière-Lépeaux | Rewbell | Merlin de Douai | Treilhard
May–17 June 1799:	Barras | La Révellière-Lépeaux | Merlin de Douai | Treilhard | Sieyès

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Name	Treilhard, Jean Baptiste
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Date of birth	1742
Place of birth	Brive-la-Gaillarde
Date of death	1 December 1810
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