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Abraham Furtado

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Abraham Furtado (1756–1817) was born to a French Jewish family of Portuguese Marrano descent. He was elected president of the Assembly of Notables; later he served as secretary of Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grand Sanhedrin", a Jewish high court convened in Europe.

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