Christian François de Lamoignon de Basville

Chrétien François de Lamoignon de Basville is a magistrate and French statesman born in 1735 and dead in May 1789.

Wire of Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville, grandson of Guillaume de Lamoignon de Basville, advisers with the Parliament of Paris, nephew of the chancellor Lamoignon and of the minister Malesherbes, he became magistrate with the Parlement of Paris in 1755. President with mortar in 1758, it animated the resistance of the Parliament against the reform of the chancellor Maupeou in 1772.

Named Minister of Justice of France the April 13rd 1787, it in vain endeavoured to reform the organization of justice. Inspired by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, he managed however to abolish torture (preliminary question). By “the edict of tolerance”, it restored a civil statue with the Protesting S.

He resigned in October 1787 and died in circumstances badly elucidated - accident of hunting or suicide - one week after the opening of the general states of 1789.

He married on September 4th 1758 Marie Elisabeth Berryer, girl of Nicolas Rene Berryer. He is the father of:

Marie-Louise de Lamoignon (1763 - 1825) which married Edouard François Mathieu Molé and founded the work of the Sœurs of the Charity of Saint-Louis with M {{gr.}} Mayneaud de Pancemont;
Marie-Constancy of Lamoignon (1774 - 1823) which married the Duc of the Force.

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