Councillor at the Montpellier Court of Audit, then member of the Convention, he voted for the death of the King. Member of the Conseil des Cinq-Cents, Minister of Justice in the second Directoire, then Second Consul, he worked on the Civil Code. Archchancellor of the Empire, he served the imperial regime with absolute loyalty. He rallied the Bourbons in 1814, but was banished as a regicide. AcadŽmie franaise 1803. Letter signed. ÒCambacrsÓ as archchancellor of the Empire. Paris, June 4, 1809, 1 p. in-4¡. Piece cropped to the left, near the text of which the first letter of certain words is very slightly damaged.Cambaceres has just received from the Emperor, dated May 27, letters and the proclamation to the army of Italy; this according to the intentions of Napoleon I must be sent by extraordinary mail to Holland and Spain. The archchancellor thinks, this proclamation having been published in the Moniteur of June 3, that it is useless to send it by post to Holland: "...Peut tre n'en est-il pas de mme pour l'Espagne o les communications ne sont ni aussi promptes, ni aussi bien Žtablies...que son correspondant fasse donc l'envoi tout de suite dans la pŽninsule ˆ moins qu'il n'ait l'assurance que la proclamation n'y soit dŽjˆ connue, etcÉÓ. (On May 26, 1809, the army of Italy made its junction with the army from Germany to Bruck, Styria junction on the occasion of which the Emperor addressed, says Thiers, a brilliant agenda where he paid the army of Italy a just tribute of praiseÓ