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See also:JOSEPH See also:MICHEL See also:ANTOINE See also:SERVAN (1737-1807)
, See also:French publicist, was See also:born at See also:Romans (See also:Dauphine) on the 3rd of See also:November 1737
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After studying See also:law he was appointed avocat-See also:general at the See also:parlement of See also:Grenoble at the See also:age of twenty-seven
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In his Discours sur la See also:justice criminelle (1766) he made an eloquent protest against legal abuses and the severity of the criminal See also:code
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In 1767 he gained See also:great repute by his See also:defence of a See also:Protestant woman who, as a result of the revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes, had been abandoned by her See also:Catholic See also:husband
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In 1772, how-ever, on the parlement refusing to accede to his See also:request that a See also:present made by a See also:grand seigneur to a See also:singer should be annulled on the ground of immorality, he resigned, and went into retirement
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He excused himself on the See also:score of See also:ill-See also:health from sitting in the States General of 1789, to which he had been elected See also:deputy, and refused to take his seat in the See also:Corps Legislatif under the See also:Empire
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Among his writings may be mentioned Reftexions sur See also:les Confessions de J.-J
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