Editing Jacques Cujas (section)

== Biography ==
He was born at [[Toulouse]], where his father, surnamed Cujaus, was a [[fuller (cloth-making)|fuller]]. Having taught himself [[Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]], he studied law under [[Arnaud du Ferrièr]], then professor at Toulouse, and rapidly gained a great reputation as a lecturer on [[Justinian I|Justinian]]. In 1554 he was appointed professor of law at [[Cahors]], and about a year after [[Michel de l'Hôpital]] called him to [[Bourges]]. [[François Douaren]] (Franciscus Duarenus), who also held a professorship at Bourges, stirred up the students against the new professor, and Cujas was glad to accept an invitation he had received to the [[University of Valence]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=614}}

Recalled to Bourges at the death of Duaren in 1559, he remained there until 1567, when he returned to Valence. There he gained a European reputation, and collected students from all parts of the continent, among whom were [[Joseph Scaliger]] and [[Jacques Auguste de Thou]]. In 1573 King [[Charles IX of France]] appointed Cujas counsellor to the [[parlement]] of [[Grenoble]], and in the following year a pension was bestowed on him by [[Henry III of France|Henry III]]. [[Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry|Margaret of Savoy]] persuaded him to move to [[Turin]]; but after a few months (1575) he returned to his old place at Bourges. The religious wars drove him out. He was called by the king to [[Paris, France|Paris]], and permission was granted him by the parlement to lecture on civil law in the university there. A year later, he finally took up residence at Bourges, where he remained until his death in 1590, in spite of a handsome offer made him by [[pope Gregory XIII]] in 1584 to attract him to [[Bologna]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=614}}