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Raymond de Sèze. Raymond Romain, Comte de Sèze or Desèze (26 September 1750 – 2 May 1828) was a French advocate. Together with François Tronchet and Malesherbes, he defended Louis XVI, when the King was brought before the Convention for trial.
Portrait de Raymond de Sèze, premier président de la Cour de cassation. En 1815 , il est nommé président de la Cour de cassation et le 17 août 1815 pair de France . Élu à l' Académie française le 22 mai 1816 , en remplacement de Jean-François Ducis ( 33 e fauteuil), il y est reçu par le marquis Louis de Fontanes le 25 août suivant.
Biographie. Né à Bordeaux, le 26 septembre 1748. Avocat au parlement de cette ville, il fut l’un des défenseurs de Louis XVI. « Son éternel honneur, dit de Barante dans son discours de réception, sera d'avoir été associé à l'événement le plus tristement religieux de notre Révolution.
Raymond de Sèze dissected the charges one by one, skilfully refuting claims that the king was to blame for broken oaths, foreign aggression, émigrés, military failures, bloodshed at the Champ de Mars and the Tuileries.
Sèze, a lawyer who earnt his reputation after defending Louis XVI in the trial prior to his execution, rests his right arm on a speech by Cicero. This is a reproduction of an original by Girodet-Trioson, whose initials appear in the lower right-hand corner.
Source citation. French Attorney and Activist. He studied law in Bordeaux, Aquitaine and gained a reputation for remarkable passion and persuasiveness, and came to prominence in 1789 when he defended the Baron de Bensenval against charges of high treason.
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found: Catalogue d'histoire de la Révolution française (access point: Sèze, Raymond de, born 1748; he was a lawyer in Bordeaux and after 1784 in Paris, he defended Louis XVI, was arrested during the Reign of Terror, was made a peer of France in 1815, died in 1828)
