Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis

French jurist and judge

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1708

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1791

Profession: judge, lawyer, jurist, Encyclopédistes

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis (April 3, 1708 in Lyon – January 25, 1791 in Paris) was a French lawyer.Advisor to the Supreme Council of Dombes in 1753 then at the Châtelet in Paris Boucher d'Argis wrote a number of legal treatises and published the Règles pour former un avocat (Rules of form of a lawyer) of Pierre Biarnoy de Merville in a "re-touched" edition with the Histoire abrégée de l'ordre des avocats. Beginning in 1742 he began to publish new editions of the Recueil, par ordre alphabétique, des principales questions de droit (Collection, in alphabetical order, of the principal questions of law) by Barthélemy-Joseph Bretonnier (1656–1727).
Beginning in 1749 he also offered new editions of Dictionnaire de droit et de pratique by Claude de Ferrière (1639–1715).
He also provided more than 4,000 articles on the law for the Encyclopédie Vols.
III through XVII including the article on sodomy.
His son was André-Jean Boucher d'Argis.