, sieur d'Aviron, advocate of the presidial court of Evreux, was celebrated
, sieur d'Aviron, advocate of
the presidial court of Evreux, was celebrated in the sixteenth century for his knowledge of law. Henry III. king
of France, having, in 1586, appointed commissioners to
investigate and adjust some disputes respecting certain
parts of the Norman law, the report they gave in, and the
proceedings which followed, suggested to le Bathelier that
able work on the Norman law, by which principally he is
now known. Groulard, first president of the parliament of
Normandy, to whom the manuscript was submitted, was
so delighted with it, that he caused the whole to be printed,
but without the name of the author, and when some insinuated that this might be interpreted to his disadvantage,
as an attempt to pass for the author, Groulard answered,
that the book was so excellent, it must always appear the?
work of James le Bathelier, and nerer could be mistaken
under any other name. These “Commentaries on the Norman law
” were reprinted with those of Berault and Godefroi, at Rouen,