CHARLES ANNIBAL

See also:

• CHARLES ANNIBAL FABROT (1580-1659)

FABROT (1580-1659)  , French jurisconsult, was born at Aix in Provence on the 15th of September 1580 . At an early age he made great progress in the ancient languages and in the civil and the canon law; and in 1602 he received the degree of doctor of law, and was made avocat to the parlement of Aix . In 1609 he obtained a professorship in the university of his native town . He is best known by his translation of the Basilica, which may be said to have formed the code of the Eastern empire till its destruction . This work was published at Paris in 1647 in 7 vols. fol., and obtained for its author a considerable pension from the chancellor, Pierre Seguier, to whom it was dedicated . Fabrot likewise rendered great service to the science of jurisprudence by' his edition of Cujas, which comprised several treatises of that great jurist previously unpublished . He also edited the works of several Byzantine historians, and was besides the author of various antiquarian and legal treatises . He died at Paris on the 16th of January '659 .