Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . —rather thanfor his great services to learning. He was born in Paris in 1811, under theFirst Empire, at the height of its deceptive splendor. His family was undistinguished, but intelligent and pro-gressive. Educated in the usual French way, at school and college,he turned his mature thoughts first to business, setting up a typefoundry with his brother Charles, who presently became an eminentinventor. The scientific bent which characterized the family inclinedEdouard, however, to legal, historical, and philosophic investigations. In
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . —rather thanfor his great services to learning. He was born in Paris in 1811, under theFirst Empire, at the height of its deceptive splendor. His family was undistinguished, but intelligent and pro-gressive. Educated in the usual French way, at school and college,he turned his mature thoughts first to business, setting up a typefoundry with his brother Charles, who presently became an eminentinventor. The scientific bent which characterized the family inclinedEdouard, however, to legal, historical, and philosophic investigations. In his twenty-eighth year he made himself a distinguished nameamong scholars by the publication of his (History of Landed Property in Europe),a work crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions and next year he brought out a remarkable book, ^ Essai sur la Vieet les Ouvrages de Savigny* (The Life and Doctrines of Savigny);a memoir which not only introduced to French readers the great. Edouard Laboulaye 8748 EDOUARD REXE LEFEBVRE LABOULAYE German jurist and politician, but familiarized them with the newcomparative method in historical investigation. Three years later appeared a still more famous volume, * Recherchessur la Condition Civile et Politique des Femmes depuis les Romainsjusqua nos Jours (The Civil and Political Condition of Womenfrom the time of the Romans). This was the first scientific inquiryinto the causes and sources of the heavy legal disabilities of women,affording a basis for the first ameliorative legislation. A remarkablehistorical study, showing nice literary workmanship, it was crownedby the Academy of Moral Sciences for its ethical value. Meantime the enthusiastic student had been admitted to the barand begun to practice. He found time, however, to write variousbooks on jurisprudence — * Roman Criminal Law,* ^Literary Propertyin France and England,^ * The State and its Limits,* with manyminor treatises and studies. A Liberal by conviction, h
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