Camus, a learned French jurisconsult, member of the National Convention; a determined enemy of the Court party in France; voted for the execution of the king as a traitor and conspirator; was conservator of the national records, and did good service in preserving them (1740‒1804).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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