See also: Dumont

Etienne Dumont , Swiss Publicity agent , born with Geneva in 1759, died in 1829

It was initially Pasteur of the French church reformed in Geneva, came in France in 1789, was put in relation to Mirabeau, wrote for him several speeches and helped it in the publication of the Courrier of Provence .

It went a few years after being established in England, bound to it closely with Jeremy Bentham, of which he was the collaborator during more than twenty years and to Geneva only in 1814 returned: it was named there member of the sovereign Conseil and made adopt a penal code in conformity with the principles of Bentham.

The works which it wrote to expose the doctrines of this publicity agent are:

• Treated civil and penal legislation , 1802;
• Theory of the sorrows and the rewards , 1812;
• Tactical of the deliberating assemblies , 1816;
• Treated legal evidence , 1823;
• Of the legal organization and coding , 1828.

It made moreover appear a series of Lettres on Bentham (in the British Bibliothèque , vol. V-VII). One published after his death his Souvenirs on Mirabeau , 1831.