Guy Coquille (1523–1603), also called Conchyleus, was a French jurist. He studied the

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in the

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, from 1532 to 1539, and then law in

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and

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in 1559, where he worked as an advocate for the

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. He represented the

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of his province in the States-General of 1560, 1576 and 1588, and served as

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of the

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from 1571 on. Coquille's writings were all published posthumously. They include the ''Institutions au droit des Francois, ou Nouvelle Conférence des Coutumes de France'' (1607) and the ''Questions et responses sur les Coutumes de France'' (1611). These works attempted to cover the laws of France comprehensively without respect to their origin in the common law or in Roman law, a novel approach that first emerged in the legal writing of 16th century France, and later in that of other European countries as well.

References

* * Guy Thuillier, ''Guy Coquille et les auteurs nivernais du XVIème siècle'', Nevers : Bibliothèque Municipale de Nevers : Société Académique du Nivernais, 2003 *

Nicolas Warembourg Nicolas Warembourg (born in 1974) is a French jurist, professor of Law at the Sorbonne. He specializes in historic, public and constitutional law. He is regularly interviewed. He is the most highly specialized regarding Guy Coquille. Training H ...

, ''Guy Coquille et le droit français : Le droit commun coutumier dans la doctrine juridique du XVIè siècle'', 2005, 864 p. 16th-century French lawyers University of Paris alumni University of Padua alumni 1523 births 1603 deaths Ancien Régime office-holders {{France-law-bio-stub