Cambacérés

Is it known that Cambaceres conceived justice as an independent power, that he initiated the Civil Code, made the Council of State “the torch of laws”? Magistrate in Montpellier, president of the Committee of Public Safety in 1794, he became in 1800 the prime contractor of Napoleon. Tolerance advocate, brother of a cardinal, grand master of Freemasonry, his reputed table throughout Europe enchants all the partisans of the Emperor.