Rodolphe Madeleine Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne

Background

Dareste de La Chavanne was born in Paris on the 25th of December 1824.

Education

He studied at the Ecole des Chartes and the Ecole de Droit.

Career

Dareste de La Chavanne started early on a legal career. He rose to be counsellor to the court of cassation (1877 to 1900).

His first publication was an Essai sur Franqois Hotman (1850), completed later by his publication of Hotman's correspondence in the Revue historique (1876), and he devoted the whole of his leisure to legal history. Of his writings may be mentioned Les Anciennes Lois de VIslande (1881); Memoire sur les anciens monuments du droit de la Hongrie (1885), and Etudes d'histoire du droit (1889). On Greek law he wrote some notable works: Du prei a la grosse chez les Atheniens (1867); Les Inscriptions hypotM- caires en Grece (1885), La Science du droit en Gr'ece: Platon, Aristote, Theophraste (1893), and Etude sur la loide Gortyne (1885). He collaborated with Theodore Reinach and B. Haussoullier in their Recueil des inscriptions juridiques grecques (1905).

Achievements

• Rodolphe's name is worthily associated with the edition of Philippe de Beaumanoir's Coutumes de Beauvaisis.