Jacques Cujas was a French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or mos gallicus school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and concentrate on ascertainin
Jacques de Cujas by an anonymous painter around 1580
Statue of Jacques Cujas by Achille Valois in Toulouse
Capitole Toulouse, in the Salle Henri-Martin: buste of Jacques Cujas
Jacques Auguste de Thou was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement of Paris.
Jacques Cujas
…returned to Valence. There he gained a European reputation, and collected students from all parts of the continent, among whom were Joseph Scaliger and Jacques Auguste de Thou. In 1573 King Charles IX of France appointed Cujas counsellor to the parlement of Grenoble, and in the following year a pension was bestowed on him by…
Jacques Auguste de Thou, president of the parliament of Paris
Supralibros with the arms of de Thou and his second wife
Statue of de Thou by Jean Barnabé Amy on the facade of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris