Louis-Joseph Faure (5 March 1760 – 12 June 1837) was a French jurist and politician who was one of the four authors of the Napoleonic Code.
He was born in Le Havre as the son of fr:Pierre joseph Denis Guillaume Faure, a lawyer and printer; he studied in Caen and became a judge in Paris in 1791.
On 18 February 1792 he was elected as assistant to Maximilien Robespierre, the Accusateur public of the Tribunal criminel.
[1] The decree of 10 March 1793 created the Revolutionary Tribunal and appointed a public accuser and two deputies to the court Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot and Fouquier-Tinville.
He cooperated with Davout, the military commander and François-Louis-René Mouchard de Chaban.