Gustave Emile Boissonade de Fontarabie lived from 1825 to 1910 and was a French legal scholar responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era. He is honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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RoleFrench legal scholar; drafted Japan's Meiji-era penal and civil codes, honored as a founder of modern Japan's legal system 2 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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1. Gustave Boissonade (Wikipedia)
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In 1873 he was invited to lecture on constitutional and criminal law to some Japanese visitors to Paris, and received an invitation to work in Japan by the Japanese Ministry of Justice as one of several foreign legal scholars needed to assist with the drafting of Japan's legal codes and in the renegotiation of the unequal treaties.
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Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825-27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825-27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825-27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825-27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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Boissonade was born in Vincennes in 1825 to the famous scholar Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie.
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Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825-27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (7 June 1825-27 June 1910) was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting Japan's penal code during the Meiji era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.
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He returned to France in 1895 and lived in Antibes, where his tomb is located.
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