Merlin, Rèpertoire de Jurisprudence (1812-1825)

Author(s): Philippe-Antoine Merlin, dit Merlin de Douai (1754-1838)

Title: Rèpertoire Universel et Raisonné de Jurisprudence (17 vols)

Remarks:

Merlin was an advocate in Flanders and represented Douai in the Estates General 1789-91. He was president of the National Assembly 1790, and a criminal judge, voting for the execution of Louis XVI (1793). As president of the National Convention 1794 he remained involved at the highest levels of politics until 1799, when he joined the Tribunal of Appeals, later becoming procureur general of that court. Napoleon I made him a count. The Bourbon restoration drove Merlin into exile as a regicide. He returned to France in 1830. The Repertoire reproduced here is a much-revised version of the seventeen-volume work of the same title edited by Joseph Nicholas Guyot (1728-1816) of 1784-85 bringing the same up-to-date in the post-revolutionary and post Code legal situation. It and Merlin's Questions de Droit (1803) were much used and are still referred to. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1807-09, 1812-15, 1827-28 Provenance of this copy: Adv. GSK Dawes

Further reading:

J-J Clère, "Merlin, Philippe-Antoine" in P. Arabeyre, J-L Halpérin, and J. Krynen (ed.), Dictionnaire historique des juristes français
xii eme - xx eme siècle (Paris, 2007).