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LAURENT, FRANCOIS (18101887)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 285 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LAURENT, FRANCOIS (18101887) , Belgian historian and jurisconsult, was born at Luxemburg on the 8th of July 18ro. He held a high appointment in the ministry of justice for some time before he became professor of civil law in the university of
Ghent
  in 1836. His advocacy of liberal and
anti
 -clerical principles both from his chair and in the press made him hitter enemies, but he retained his position until his death on the 11th of February 1887. He treated the relations of church and state in L'Eglise et l'etat (Brussels, 3 vols., 18581862; new and revised edition, 1865), and the same subject occupied a large proportion of the eighteen volumes of his
chief
  historical
work
 , Etudes sur l'histoire de l'humanite (
Ghent
  and Brussels, 1855187o), which aroused considerable
interest
  beyond the boundaries of Belgium. His fame as a lawyer rests on his authoritative exposition of the Code
Napoleon
  in his Principes de droit civil (Brussels, 33 vols., 18691878), and his Droit civil international (Brussels, 8 vols., 188o1881). He was charged in 1879 by the minister of justice with the preparation of a report on the proposed revision of the civil code. Besides his
anti
 -clerical pamphlets his
minor
  writings include much discussion of social questions, of the organization of savings banks, asylums, &c., and he founded the Societe Callier for the encouragement of thrift among the working classes. With Gustave Callier, whose funeral in 1863 was made the occasion of a display of clerical intolerance, Laurent had much in common, and the efforts of the society were directed to the continuation of Callier's philanthropic schemes.
For a complete
list
  of his works, see G. Koninck, Bibliographic nationale (Brussels, vol. ii., 1892).


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