Faculty of Law of Paris
Notable alumni (1802–1970)
Notable alumni (1802–1970\)
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### Intellectuals

* [Victor Hugo](/wiki/Victor_Hugo "Victor Hugo")
* [Alexis de Tocqueville](/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville "Alexis de Tocqueville")

### Law professors

* [Manuel Alejandro Álvarez Jofré](/wiki/Manuel_Alejandro_%C3%81lvarez_Jofr%C3%A9 "Manuel Alejandro Álvarez Jofré"), [Chilean](/wiki/Chile "Chile") professor of [international law](/wiki/International_law "International law") and a [judge](/wiki/Judge "Judge") at the [International Court of Justice](/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice "International Court of Justice")
* Henri Batiffol
* [Raymond Carré de Malberg](/wiki/Raymond_Carr%C3%A9_de_Malberg "Raymond Carré de Malberg")
* [Lev Kasso](/wiki/Lev_Kasso "Lev Kasso"), Russian professor of law and secretary of public instruction
* [Gustave Boissonade](/wiki/Gustave_Boissonade "Gustave Boissonade")

### Judiciary and lawyers

Lawyers who are more well known as politicians are listed in the section about politicians.

* [Sarmiza Bilcescu](/wiki/Sarmiza_Bilcescu "Sarmiza Bilcescu"), first female student in law in France and first female doctor of law in France
* [Jeanne Chauvin](/wiki/Jeanne_Chauvin "Jeanne Chauvin"), first woman to lead at the bar in France
* [Henri Donnedieu de Vabres](/wiki/Henri_Donnedieu_de_Vabres "Henri Donnedieu de Vabres"), French judge at the [Nuremberg trials](/wiki/Nuremberg_trials "Nuremberg trials")
* [Louis Henri Barboux](/wiki/Louis_Henri_Barboux "Louis Henri Barboux"), lawyer for [Sarah Bernhardt](/wiki/Sarah_Bernhardt "Sarah Bernhardt") in her 1880 breach\-of\-contract suit against the [Comédie\-Française](/wiki/Com%C3%A9die-Fran%C3%A7aise "Comédie-Française")
* Louis Leblois, magistrate and lawyer of [Alfred Dreyfus](/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus "Alfred Dreyfus"), symbolic French antisemitism case
* [Fernand Labori](/wiki/Fernand_Labori "Fernand Labori"), lawyer of [Alfred Dreyfus](/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus "Alfred Dreyfus")
* [Paul Magnaud](/wiki/Paul_Magnaud "Paul Magnaud"), prominent magistrate
* [Rodolphe\-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de La Chavanne](/wiki/Rodolphe-Madeleine_Cleophas_Dareste_de_La_Chavanne "Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de La Chavanne")
* [Mireille Ndiaye](/wiki/Mireille_Ndiaye "Mireille Ndiaye")
* [Olga Petit](/wiki/Olga_Petit "Olga Petit"), first woman to take the oath to become barrister in France
* Simone Rozès, first female president of the [French Court of Cassation](/wiki/French_Court_of_Cassation "French Court of Cassation") (highest position for a judge in France)
* [Jacques Vergès](/wiki/Jacques_Verg%C3%A8s "Jacques Vergès"), prominent French lawyer
* [Tcheng Yu\-hsiu](/wiki/Tcheng_Yu-hsiu "Tcheng Yu-hsiu"), first female lawyer and judge in Chinese history

### Literature, arts and social activism

* [Honoré de Balzac](/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac "Honoré de Balzac"), prominent author
* [René Bazin](/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Bazin "René Bazin"), prominent author
* [Gustave Flaubert](/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert "Gustave Flaubert"), author of *[Madame Bovary](/wiki/Madame_Bovary "Madame Bovary")*
* [Marcel Proust](/wiki/Marcel_Proust "Marcel Proust"), author of *[In Search of Lost Time](/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time "In Search of Lost Time")*
* [Anne Ancelin Schützenberger](/wiki/Anne_Ancelin_Sch%C3%BCtzenberger "Anne Ancelin Schützenberger"), psychologist
* [Jean Aubert](/wiki/Jean_Aubert_%28engineer%29 "Jean Aubert (engineer)"), engineer
* [Jacques Bainville](/wiki/Jacques_Bainville "Jacques Bainville"), journalist and historian
* [Alfred Binet](/wiki/Alfred_Binet "Alfred Binet"), psychologist
* [Henri Burin des Roziers](/wiki/Henri_Burin_des_Roziers "Henri Burin des Roziers"), priest and social activist
* [Charles Champoiseau](/wiki/Charles_Champoiseau "Charles Champoiseau"), archeologist
* Éric de Dampierre, ethnologist
* Émile Dard, historian
* [Henri de Gaulle](/wiki/Henri_de_Gaulle "Henri de Gaulle"), teacher, father of [Charles de Gaulle](/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle "Charles de Gaulle") (president of France)
* [Gaëtan Duval](/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Duval "Gaëtan Duval"), activist
* [Dariush Safvat](/wiki/Dariush_Safvat "Dariush Safvat"), music master
* [Raphaël Salem](/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Salem "Raphaël Salem"), [Raphaël Salem](/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Salem "Raphaël Salem"), Greek mathematician whose name gave the [Salem numbers](/wiki/Salem_number "Salem number"), the [Salem–Spencer sets](/wiki/Salem%E2%80%93Spencer_set "Salem–Spencer set") and the [Salem Prize](/wiki/Salem_Prize "Salem Prize")
* [Claude Lévi\-Strauss](/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss "Claude Lévi-Strauss"), "father of modern anthropology"

### Politics and military

#### France: presidents

* [François Mitterrand](/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand "François Mitterrand"), president for 14 years
* [Jean Casimir\-Perier](/wiki/Jean_Casimir-Perier "Jean Casimir-Perier"), president and prime minister, involved in the [Dreyfus affair](/wiki/Dreyfus_affair "Dreyfus affair") against antisemitism
* [Raymond Poincaré](/wiki/Raymond_Poincar%C3%A9 "Raymond Poincaré"), president during [World War I](/wiki/World_War_I "World War I") and prime minister

#### France: prime ministers

* [Aristide Briand](/wiki/Aristide_Briand "Aristide Briand"), prime minister, Nobel Peace Prize 1926
* [Léon Gambetta](/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Gambetta "Léon Gambetta"), prime minister, influential during the [Franco\-Prussian War](/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War "Franco-Prussian War") and in the restoration of the Republic in France
* [Jules Grévy](/wiki/Jules_Gr%C3%A9vy "Jules Grévy"), prime minister
* [Michel Debré](/wiki/Michel_Debr%C3%A9 "Michel Debré"), prime minister
* [Pierre Messmer](/wiki/Pierre_Messmer "Pierre Messmer"), prime minister
* [Maurice Couve de Murville](/wiki/Maurice_Couve_de_Murville "Maurice Couve de Murville"), prime minister
* [Henri Brisson](/wiki/Henri_Brisson "Henri Brisson"), prime minister
* [Maurice Bourgès\-Maunoury](/wiki/Maurice_Bourg%C3%A8s-Maunoury "Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury"), prime minister
* [Léon Bourgeois](/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bourgeois "Léon Bourgeois"), prime minister

#### France: other

* [Jules Favre](/wiki/Jules_Favre "Jules Favre"), opponent to [Napoleon III](/wiki/Napoleon_III "Napoleon III")
* [Robert Badinter](/wiki/Robert_Badinter "Robert Badinter"), minister of justice
* [Gustave Rouland](/wiki/Gustave_Rouland "Gustave Rouland")
* [Simone Veil](/wiki/Simone_Veil "Simone Veil"), minister of justice
* [Pierre\-Antoine Berryer](/wiki/Pierre-Antoine_Berryer "Pierre-Antoine Berryer"), member of parliament and the [Académie française](/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise "Académie française")
* Bernard Barberon, resistant to Nazi Germany
* [Jean\-Baptiste Biaggi](/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Biaggi "Jean-Baptiste Biaggi"), resistant and member of parliament
* Guy de Boysson, resistant
* [Lucien Brun](/wiki/Lucien_Brun "Lucien Brun"), prominent member of parliament of the [French Third Republic](/wiki/French_Third_Republic "French Third Republic")
* [Pierre Jacobsen](/wiki/Pierre_Jacobsen "Pierre Jacobsen"), resistant and high\-rank military
* [Jean\-Marie Le Pen](/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen "Jean-Marie Le Pen"), member of parliament

#### Outside of France

* [Javad Ameri](/wiki/Javad_Ameri "Javad Ameri"), Iranian minister of Interior
* [Ali Amini](/wiki/Ali_Amini "Ali Amini"), Prime Minister of Iran
* [Constantin Argetoianu](/wiki/Constantin_Argetoianu "Constantin Argetoianu"), prime minister of Romania
* [Shapour Bakhtiar](/wiki/Shapour_Bakhtiar "Shapour Bakhtiar"), last prime minister of Iran before the [Islamic Republic](/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran "Islamic Republic of Iran"), voluntary soldier during WW2 to help France, opponent to monarchy, to clerical rule and to the communists, assassinated in France by agents of the Islamic Republic in 1991
* [Hassen Belkhodja](/wiki/Hassen_Belkhodja "Hassen Belkhodja"), Tunisian secretary of state
* [Habib Bourguiba Jr.](/wiki/Habib_Bourguiba_Jr. "Habib Bourguiba Jr."), Tunisian politician, son of [Habib Bourguiba](/wiki/Habib_Bourguiba "Habib Bourguiba")
* [Boutros Boutros\-Ghali](/wiki/Boutros_Boutros-Ghali "Boutros Boutros-Ghali"), [sixth secretary\-general](/wiki/List_of_Secretaries-General_of_the_United_Nations "List of Secretaries-General of the United Nations") of the [United Nations](/wiki/United_Nations "United Nations") (UN)
* [Armand Călinescu](/wiki/Armand_C%C4%83linescu "Armand Călinescu"), prime minister of Romania
* [Hasan Dosti](/wiki/Hasan_Dosti "Hasan Dosti"), Albanian nationalist
* [Abbas Ali Khalatbari](/wiki/Abbas_Ali_Khalatbari "Abbas Ali Khalatbari"), Iranian secretary of foreign affairs
* [Gheorghe Mironescu](/wiki/Gheorghe_Mironescu "Gheorghe Mironescu")
* [Vũ Văn Mẫu](/wiki/V%C5%A9_V%C4%83n_M%E1%BA%ABu "Vũ Văn Mẫu"), [Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam](/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_%28South_Vietnam%29 "Minister of Foreign Affairs (South Vietnam)") and [Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam](/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam "Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam")
* [Wei Tao\-ming](/wiki/Wei_Tao-ming "Wei Tao-ming"), [Republic of China](/wiki/Republic_of_China_%281912%E2%80%931949%29 "Republic of China (1912–1949)")'s ambassador to the [United States](/wiki/United_States "United States") during the [Second World War](/wiki/Second_World_War "Second World War")

### Fictional

* [Marius Pontmercy](/wiki/Marius_Pontmercy "Marius Pontmercy"), from *[Les Misérables](/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables "Les Misérables")*

How did Vu Van Mau serve as Prime Minister of Vietnam, and what was his role in Vietnam's foreign affairs?