Vastel, Les Obligations Civiles des Frères (1783)

Author(s): Louis Guillaume François Vastel (1746-1819)

Title: Essai sur les obligations civiles des freres envers leurs seurs, suivant la Coutume de Normandie

Remarks:

Vastel received a doctorate in law in 1770 and became an advocate on the Norman Parlement, later serving as a post-revolutionary administrative officer with a special interest in agriculture, and head of the lycée in Caen. He demonstrated an interest in women's rights including in the present work, supplementing it by a further publication, of 1787. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1783 Provenance of this copy: Adv. GSK Dawes

Further reading:

E. Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand ; ou, Dictionnaire bibliographique et historique, vol. 2 (Rouen,1860), p. 590. V. Lemonnier-Lesage, "Vastel, Louis Guillaume François" in P. Arabeyre, J-L Halpérin, and J. Krynen (ed.), Dictionnaire historique des juristes français xii^e -- xx^e siècle (Paris, 2007).