 Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil

Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil (5 December 174522 April 1794), French magistrate and politician, was born in India at Pondicherry, his father being a colleague of Joseph François Dupleix.Returning to France in 1750 he was educated in Paris for the law, and became in 1775 in the of Paris, where he soon distinguished himself by his zealous defence of its rights against the royal prerogative.