Pierre Hévin

Pierre Hévin , (1621 or 1623-1692), historian and jurisconsult French, officiant with Rennes (Brittany). It is a champion of the royal absolutism and a posthumous adversary of Bertrand d' Argentré. He is the author of important work on the Droit Breton.

Biography

Lawyer with the Parliament of Brittany, it was born in Rennes in 1621. His/her father, also named Pierre, was doctor in right; he had been received Académie of the humorists of Rome where he had bound with Jean Barclay, the author of Argènis . This wire was accepted lawyer at the nineteen years age. It initially did not appear to announce all that it was to be one day: thorough work of its first studies had given him a kind of gravity, which harmed, during some time, with the development of its talents; but soon the exercise of the bar showed it such as it was, and one saw it combining the eloquence with the depth.

It came sometimes to Paris, and was sought there by all that the bar moreover had distinguished. It in one of these voyages that he discovered an old translation of the Assise of the count Geoffroi , is discovered that he made profitable thereafter, and who, united with other knowledge which he drew from the study of the writers and the monuments of the Moyen-âge, was used to him as guide in the thorough study of the old habits, and the charters of the Brittany. Its immense work did not prevent it from maintaining a correspondence followed with the most enlightened magistrates and most famous lawyers the kingdom. Mr. of Pontchartrain honoured it with a very particular regard. After more than forty years of work, Hévin died the October 15th 1692.

Publications

  1. studies on the general Habits of Brittany 1682.
  2. Stops of the Parliament of Brittany , Frain, 3rd edition, increased annotations, pleas and stops, Rennes, 1684, 2 vol. in-4°. This edition is enriched by carrying research; one finds there a feature curious about the life of Henri IV relating to the sior of the Sicaudais, Breton. The author raises a mistake there of François-Eudes de Mézeray, relative with Saint-Malo: he also enters there the examination of the décrétale of Honorius III, which defends to teach the civil law in Paris.
  3. Consultations and observations on the Habit of Brittany , Rennes, 1734 and 1745, in-4°. They are the posthumous works of the author, published by his grandson, adviser at the Parliament of Rennes. Some consultations of the son of the author, lawyer at the same Parliament, are united with this volume.
  4. Questions and observations concerning the feudal matters compared to Coustume of Brittany . With Rennes, Vatar, 1736. Rennes, 1757, in-4°. Considerations on the successional right in the regions of Landerneau, Brest, Rennes and Valves. Civil law, habits, acts various, payments on the tobacco, alcohols, salts, etc This volume contains the continuation of the Consultations of the author, and the works which are foreign for him.
  5. general Habits of local Brittany and usements of the same province, with the official reports of the two reformations and of the notes , Rennes, 1744, in-4°. It had appeared, in 1693, in Rennes, an edition in-16, given by Hévin, of the text of these habits with the particular uses.

There is still a writing of Hévin, in which he refutes the romantic history, brought back by Antoine Varillas, of died of the countess of Chateaubriant. Hévin shown there of a sure judgment and a healthy criticism; it goes only too far, when it wants to prove that the countess of Châteaubriant was not main of François I {{er}}. One finds in the Journal of the scientists of 1681 an essay of Hévin on a monstrous chicken, and another on the discovery, made with Vannes, of fifty thousand medals: this treasure appears to be hidden about year 260 of J. - C., since it was there no medal of a later date; oldest are time of Caracalla.

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