About Robert Génestal
Lived 1872 – 1931 (aged 59). Robert Génestal was a French legal historian, jurist and university teacher.
Robert Génestal (1872–1931) was a French historian of canon law and French law who taught first at the Faculty of Law of the University of Caen and later at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris. He was director of studies for the history of canon law at the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Publications La tenure en bourgage dans les pays régis par la coutume de Normandie (Paris, 1900) Le Rôle des monastères comme établissements de crédit étudié en Normandie du XIe à la fin du XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1901) Le privilegium fori en France du Décret de Gratiën à la fin du XIVe siècle (2 vols., Paris, 1921-1924) La Tutelle (Caen, 1930)
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Who was Robert Génestal?
French legal historian
When was Robert Génestal born?
Robert Génestal was born on 26 March 1872.
When did Robert Génestal die?
Robert Génestal died on 16 April 1931.
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Robert Génestal was a legal historian, jurist and university teacher.
What nationality was Robert Génestal?
Robert Génestal was French.
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