French jurist. Châlons-sur-Sâone, 23 December 1527 - Altdorf, 4 May 1591. He became very early a Calvinist. Studied at the Universities of Toulouse (c. 1544-1546) and Bourges, where he promoted in 1551 and became himself professor. Relieved from this function in 1571 for heresy, he fled Bourges after the St. Bartholomew's Eve Massacre (August 1572). After a short stay at Geneva, he became professor at Heidelberg (1572-1579). Difficulties with the Lutheran authorities at Heidelberg brought him in October 1579 to Leiden, where he became the first professor of law at the newly erected university. His staunch Calvinistic views made him meddle in Dutch politics, which once again deprived him of his function. In the fall of 1587 he left Leiden for Germany, where soon afterwards he was appointed professor at Altdorf. Cf. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, 1, 1911, Columns 729-733; Dictionnaire de biographie française, 11, page 514; Dictionnaire des lettres françaises publié sous la direction de Mgr. G. Grente. Le seizième siècle, 1951, page 235; A. Cioranesco, Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle, 1959, page 252.
- cp012094: Commentarii ad titulos Digestorum, 1582.
- cp011507: Commentarius ad titulum Digestorum, de rebus dubiis. Leiden, 1584.
- cp012767: Commentarius ad titulum Digestorum, de rebus dubiis. Antwerp, 1584.
- cp011720: Commentarius ad titulum Institutionum, de actionibus. Leiden, 1584.
- cp013339: Commentarius ad titulum Institutionum, de actionibus. Antwerp, 1584.
- cp010373: Commentarii ad Codicis Iustiniani partes diversas, 1587.