The Grand Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court convened in Europe by French Emperor Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by an assembly of Jewish notables in answer to the twelve
Contemporary illustration of the Grand Sanhedrin by Michel François Damane Demartrais
Cover page to a siddur used at the Grand Sanhedrin of Napoleon, 1807
Medallion struck by the Paris mint in commemoration of the Grand Sanhedrin
Le grand Sanhedrin (1868) by Edouard Moyse [fr]
An Assembly of Notables was a group of high-ranking nobles, ecclesiastics, and state functionaries convened by the King of France on extraordinary occasions to consult on matters of state. Assemblymen
Grand Sanhedrin
…having for its object the creation of consistories, was not submitted to the Sanhedrin, but was promulgated by Napoleon's decree of March 17, 1808. Assembly of Notables, a pre-French Revolution institution Infamous Decree…
1822 depiction of the 1596 Assembly of Notables in Rouen
Engraving showing the Assembly of Notables of 1787 in Versailles
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789