Jean-François Fournel

Jean-François Fournel (1745 – 21 July 1820) was a French lawyer, jurist, and member of the Parlement de Paris.[1][2]

Career

Exoneration of Marie Salmon

In 1786, Fournel worked with Rouen lawyer Pierre Noël Lecauchois to exonerate Marie Salmon, a young domestic servant who was wrongfully convicted of fatally poisoning her employer and was sentenced to be tortured and burned alive.[4] Fournel and Lecauchois successfully argued her innocence in widely circulated legal briefs printed by Parisian publisher Cailleau.[5][6]

After Salmon's exoneration, Fournel's brief, Consultation pour une jeune fille condamnée à être brûlée vive (transl. Consultation for a young girl condemned to be burned alive), was read at the Vatican, and the Pope named him a Knight of the Golden Spur.[7]

French Revolution and beyond

After the French Revolution, Fournel retired from public life and spent his time writing and collecting documents to publish later.[8] When Napoleon came to power and established the Napoleonic Code in 1804, Fournel returned to practicing law and published numerous works of legal scholarship and case law.[9]

In March 1816, Fournel was elected president of the Ordre des avocats de Paris (transl. Paris Bar Association).[1]

Works

Books and legal briefs written by Jean-François Fournel:

  • Traité de l'adultère considéré dans l'ordre judiciaire, 1778[10]
  • Traité de la séduction considérée dans l'ordre judiciaire, 1781[11]
  • Consultation pour une jeune fille condamnée à être brûlée, 1786[12]
  • Dictionnaire raisonné, ou Exposition par ordre alphabétique, des lois sur les transactions entre particuliers, 1797[13]
  • Analyse raisonnée de la loi du 27 Thermidor an VI, 1798[14]
  • Traité du voisinage, considéré dans l'ordre judiciaire et administratif, 1812[15]
  • Histoire des avocats au Parlement et du barreau de Paris depuis S. Louis jusqu'au 15 octobre 1790s, 1813[16]
  • Histoire du barreau de Paris dans le cours de la Révolution, 1816[17]

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