Boulay de la Meurthe, ANTOINE, COUNT

Boulay de la Meurthe, ANTOINE, COUNT, a French statesman, born at Chaumouzey, in the Vosges, in 1761. He espoused the cause of the Revolution, but became known as the opponent both of Jacobinism and the despotism of the Directory. Under the Empire he had an important part in the preparation of the Code Civil. Returning in 1819 from Germany, he lived in retirement at Paris, where he died 2d February 1840. He published an essay on the Commonwealth in England (1799), and Bourrienne et ses Erreurs (1830).