Jean Baptiste Michel Grellet Du Mazeau

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Jean Baptiste Michel Grellet Du Mazeau (born June 10, 1777 in Aubusson (Creuse) , † April 25, 1852 in Limoges ) was a French lawyer and historian .

He was the son of a lawyer and studied in Paris the law , but in addition also driving history and mathematics studies. In 1798 he was called up for military service and served as a gunner in the Brest fleet as an artilleryman. Here he invented a diving ship to explore the coasts of England , the idea of ​​which was acclaimed by the famous Parisian mathematician Gaspard Monge .

Thanks to the intervention of the navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville , Grellet Du Mazeau was able to end his military service after just one and a half years. In 1808 he was judge, in 1809 examining magistrate in Aubusson. After nearly thirty years of service, he was promoted to the Council of Appeal Court in Limoges. He died in Limoges in 1852 at the age of 74.

Fonts

  • You partage de communaux dans le département de la Creuse , Aubusson 1831
  • Essai sur la souveraineté , Paris 1834
  • Traité de la defamation, de l'injure et de l'outrage , 2 volumes, 1847
  • Du bail a métairie perpétuelle , 1848
  • Des phases de la dot , Limoges 1848

Grellet Du Mazeau was also one of the founders of the Bulletins de la société archéologique et historique du Limousin and wrote the following historical articles for them:

  • Sur la mort de Richard Cœur de Lion
  • Sur Vaifre, duc d'Aquitaine, et sur la lionne de l'église de Saint-Sauveur à Limoges
  • De la domination anglaise sur certaines provinces d'outre-Loire
  • Recherches historique sur les idiomes vulgaires du moyen Age dans les Gaules

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personal data
SURNAME Grellet Du Mazeau, Jean Baptiste Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Aubusson (Creuse)
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1852
Place of death Limoges