Charles Lambert d'Outrepont

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Charles Lambert d'Outrepont (1746–1809) was a lawyer from the Austrian Netherlands who later became a French legislator. Born in Herve (now Belgium) on 16 September 1746, he studied law at Leuven and became an advocate in 1771. In the 1780s he debated issues such as tithes, marriage law, and constitutional law, and he supported the radical Vonck faction in the Brabant Revolution. After the French invasion of 1792, he went to the National Convention to argue against Belgium joining France, but he failed. He then held several French roles: commissioner to the tribunal of the Département de la Dyle (1795), professor of legislation at the École Centrale de Bruxelles (1797), deputy in the Council of Five Hundred (1798), and judge on the Court of Cassation. He died in Paris on 4 March 1809.