, not Durand (GiLLEs), Sieur de la Bergerie, an eminent advocate to the parliament of Paris, is supposed, according
, not Durand (GiLLEs), Sieur de la Bergerie, an eminent advocate to the parliament of Paris, is
supposed, according to Pasquier, book xix. letter 15, to
be the same who was one of the nine advocates commissioned by the court to reform the custom of Paris. He
was also among the best poets before Malherbe, wrote odes,
sonnets, elegies, &c. and translated, or imitated part of
the Latin pieces written by his friend John Bounefons the
father; under the title of, “Imitations tirees du Latin de
Jean Bonnefons, avec autres amours et melanges poetiques,
” The verses to his godmother on the decease of
her ass, who died in the flower of his age during the siege
of Paris, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1590,
” are esteemed a masterpiece in the ironical and sportive style. They may be
found in the ingenious work, entitled, " Satyre MenipeeY*
and in the works of Durant, 1594, 12mo. He was broken
on the wheel, July 16, 1618, with two Florentine brothers
of the house des patrices, for a libel against the king.
Some, however, doubt if this is the same.
, an eminent advocate to the parliament of Paris, was born August
, an eminent advocate to the
parliament of Paris, was born August 13, 1669, and was
related to the same family as the preceding. He was admitted advocate at Paris in 16^1, where his merit and
abilities soon procured him many clients, and having made
the written law his peculiar study, he became, as it were,
the oracle of the Lyonnois, and all the provinces where
the law is followed. He assisted in the “Journal de Savans
” during five years, and was several years censorroyal of books of law and literature. He died September
30, 1734, at Paris, aged sixty-six. He left a collection of
his own discourses, pleadings, memoirs, and consultations,
under the title of “CEuvres de Matthieu Terrasson,
” &c.
4to. This collection, which was much valued, was published by his only son, Anthony Terrasson, advocate to the
parliament of Paris, and author of *‘ L’Histoire de la Jurisprudence Romalne," printed at Paris, 1750, fol. There
is an edition of the works of Henrys in 4 vols. fol. with
notes by Matthew Terrasson, printed by Bretonnier in
1772.