Editing Charles Annibal Fabrot

{{Short description|French lawyer (1580–1659)}}
{{One source|date=February 2012}}

'''Charles Annibal Fabrot''' (15 September 1580 – 16 January 1659) was a French [[lawyer|jurisconsult]].

==Biography==
He was born in [[Aix-en-Provence]]. At an early age he made great progress in the ancient languages and in the [[Civil law (legal system)|civil]] and the [[Canon law (Catholic Church)|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 [[Basilika]], which may be said to have formed the code of the [[Eastern Roman Empire|Eastern empire]] till its destruction.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Fabrot, Charles Annibal|volume=10|page=120}}</ref>

This work was published at [[Paris, France|Paris]] in 1647 in 7 volumes folio, and obtained for its author a considerable pension from the chancellor, [[Pierre Seguier]], to whom it was dedicated. Fabrot rendered great service to the science of jurisprudence by his edition of [[Jacques Cujas|Cujas]], which comprised several treatises of that great jurist previously unpublished. He also edited the works of several [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] historians, and was besides the author of various antiquarian and legal treatises. He died in Paris on 16 January 1659.<ref name="EB1911"/>

==Trivia==
*There is a street in the centre of [[Aix-en-Provence]] named after him. [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=]

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