L’influence du modèle français sur les barreaux belges (avant et après 1810)

The history of the belgian bar(s) of lawyers/barristers/attorneys. ('advocaten'/'avocats') was very much influenced by the French example: - in the Ancient Regime by way of 'indirect legal transplant': the regional and central institutions of the Low Countries 'copied' the romano-canonical procedure, as it was applied in the french 'parlements', including the 'procureurs' and 'avocats'; - in the nineteenth century because of the introduction of the Napoleonic decree of 1810, reintroducing the 'avocats' after they had been abolished by the french revolutionaries.