Charles de Franqueville

Amable Charles Franquet, comte de Franqueville (1840 to 1919) was a French conseiller d'État, lawyer and scholar, known for his work on British institutions. The only child of the engineer Alfred Charles Ernest Franquet, comte de Franqueville, he followed his father in joining the Conseil d'État and rose to the rank of conseiller d'État. He was created a hereditary papal count in 1870, was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1888, became a corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1904 and received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1901. His works include a study of British political, judicial and administrative institutions (1863), a report on public works in England (1874), Le Gouvernement et le parlement britanniques (1887) and Le Système judiciaire de la Grande-Bretagne (1893).