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Charles Frédéric Gabriel Christin (1741–1799), French lawyer, judge, politician

A lawyer at Saint-Claude and Besançon, he was the initiator of the legal campaign to abolish the feudal custom of mainmorte on peasants; mayor of Saint-Claude; he was elected to the États-généraux in 1789 and was a member of the Assemblée constituante; in his later years he was the presiding judge of the court of Saint-Claude. Author of a Dissertation sur l'établissement de l'abbaye de S. Claude (1772). He died in the fire which destroyed much of the town of Saint-Claude.