DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE

dareste de la chavanne, rodolphe madeleine cleophas (1824- ), french jurist, was born in paris on the 25th of december 1824. he studied at the ecole des chartes and the ecole de droit, and starting 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 francois 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 l'islande_ (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 pret a la grosse chez les atheniens_ (1867); _les inscriptions hypothecaires en grece_ (1885), _la science du droit en grece: platon, aristote, theophraste_ (1893), and _etude sur la loi de gortyne_ (1885). he collaborated with theodore reinach and b. haussoullier in their _recueil des inscriptions juridiques grecques_ (1905), and his name is worthily associated with the edition of philippe de beaumanoir's _coutumes de beauvaisis_, published by salmon (2 vols., 1899, 1900).