JEAN

See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE

See also:

• JEAN BAPTISTE TREILHARD (1742–1810)

TREILHARD (1742–1810)  , French revolutionist, was born at Brives (Correze) . In Paris he gained reputation as an avocat at the parlement, and was a deputy to the states-general in 1789 . In the Constituent Assembly he showed great capacity in dealing with the reorganization of the Church and the nationalization of ecclesiastical property . Ineligible, like all the members of the Constituent Assembly, for the Legislative Assembly, he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but failed through lack of firmness . The department of Seine-et-Oise elected him to the Convention, where he attached himself t' the group known as the Mountain (q.v.) and voted for the death of Louis XVI . He was a member of the committee of public safety, and became president of the Convention on the 27th of December 1792 . Under the Directory he entered the Council of the Five Hundred (of which he was president during the month of Nivose, year IV.), was a member of the Tribunal of Cassation, plenipotentiary at the Congress of Rastatt, and became a director in the year VI . After the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire he became president of the tribunal of appeal and councillor of state . He took an important part in drafting the civil code, the criminal code, the code of civil procedure and the commercial code . He died on the 1st of December 181o, a senator and count of the empire . See Bonnal de Ganges, " Representants du peuple dignitaires par Napoleon . . .

Treilhard," in the Revue du monde calholigue (7th series, vol. iii., 1900) ; Guyot d'Amfreville, Vie de J . B . Treilhard (Limoges, 1879) .