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Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target
Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target (17 December 1733 – 9 September 1806) was a French lawyer and politician.
Biography.
Born in Paris, Target was the son of a lawyer, and was himself a lawyer to the Parlement of Paris. He acquired a great reputation as a lawyer, less by practice in the courts than in a consultative capacity, and served the ancien régime as member of a committee to revise the civil and criminal laws of the kingdom. He strenuously
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