René CHOPPIN
De domanio Franciae. Libri III
Apud Michaëlem Sonnium|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] • (Paris) 1621|21.50 x 34.50 cm|relié
Last edition, after the first published in 1574. Title page in red and black. Large printer's device on title page.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Raised band spine richly decorated. Brown morocco title label. Double fillet frame to boards. Light dampstain, dry and clear to upper center of the work over 8 cm, without any severity, but darker in the final index. Good copy.
Essay on the legitimacy of the French monarchy and its laws. Choppin defends the idea of a centralized royalty by studying not only Roman law, but also feudal and royal law among the Goths, in Byzantium, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Macedonians... In his third book, Choppin studies the characteristics of Salic law in France (which excludes women from reigning) by comparing it to law among other nations. The first version of the Salic code (penal and civil law) dates back to the 5th century and regulated succession rights. Following Bodin, a native of Anjou like himself and whom he would accuse of having stolen his ideas, the jurist Choppin is a sovereigntist thinker, he bases the solidity of the state on the notion of sovereignty; he is one of the first thinkers of the concept of state. Three indexes at the end of the work, notably allowing one to find the historical specificities of each nation (Scotland, Denmark...)
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Raised band spine richly decorated. Brown morocco title label. Double fillet frame to boards. Light dampstain, dry and clear to upper center of the work over 8 cm, without any severity, but darker in the final index. Good copy.
Essay on the legitimacy of the French monarchy and its laws. Choppin defends the idea of a centralized royalty by studying not only Roman law, but also feudal and royal law among the Goths, in Byzantium, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Macedonians... In his third book, Choppin studies the characteristics of Salic law in France (which excludes women from reigning) by comparing it to law among other nations. The first version of the Salic code (penal and civil law) dates back to the 5th century and regulated succession rights. Following Bodin, a native of Anjou like himself and whom he would accuse of having stolen his ideas, the jurist Choppin is a sovereigntist thinker, he bases the solidity of the state on the notion of sovereignty; he is one of the first thinkers of the concept of state. Three indexes at the end of the work, notably allowing one to find the historical specificities of each nation (Scotland, Denmark...)
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