IN MEMORIAM
Historians of the School of Law of Grenoble
 
 
S h o r t   b i o g r a p h i e s
 
    Gérard Chianéa (1938–2006)
 
    Dean and Law Professor
Gérard Chianéa
 
    It is with great sadness that we learned the death of our colleague and friend, Gérard Chianéa, on 20 May 2006 in Nice. Professor Chianéa received his PhD in law with a work on The Legal Status of the Lands in Dauphiné in the XVIIIth century, which has been a source of inspiration for many students involved in Law History. Very much loved by his friends as well as by his colleagues, he was elected Dean of the School of Law of Grenoble in 1979 and has presided over its destiny ever since.
 
    Pierre Chevallier (1927–2006)
    Law Professor
Pierre Chevallier
 
    Pierre Chevallier was descended from an old family in Montpellier, in the south of France. He studied law in Paris, then in Nancy where he defended a much acclaimed thesis on Money in Lorraine under the reign of Leopold. He got the French national exam for full professorship called the Agrégation the first time he took it in 1955 ; he received a chair of law in Grenoble, and accepted to be detached to Tunis first, and then to Tananarive. Finally, back in Grenoble in 1962, he took an active part in the research programmes of the Law Centre run by Jean Maillet. He has bequeathed to us many works on the history of teaching as well as on institutions in Dauphiné.
 
    Jean Maillet (1920–74)
    Dean and Law Professor
Jean Maillet
 
    Jean Maillet was a specialist of the History of private law. He wrote his PhD thesis on The theory of Schuld and Haftung under the supervision of Professor Jean Macqueron (1944). In his works, in which he used a strict legal technique and which were written in a very classical vein, he shows the influence of the Roman law on the development of the common law. Yet, he was not indifferent to any of the fields related to the history of human societies. There is no doubt that it was his profoundly human nature which made him into a historian.
 
    Noël Didier (1900–58)
    Law Professor
Noël Didier
 
    Noël Didier was born in Chambéry on November 15, 1900. After he had brilliantly completed his graduate studies, he completed his PhD on The conservation of churches in the XIIIth century in 1927. In 1931 he ranked first at the Agregation national exam, and was subsequently appointed at the School of Law of Grenoble where he was Chair in Law History up to his death on July 5, 1958. He wrote several books and many papers on ecclesiastical lands and fiefs, and the status of dowried daughters.
 
 
R o m a n   L a w   P r o f e s s o r s
 
      •  Didier, Paul
          Dean and Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1805–09.
      •  Burdet
          Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1810–31.
      •  Quinon
          Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1831–59.
      •  Périer, Louis (1821–77)
          Dean and Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1859–77.
      •  Trouiller, Augustin-Casimir (1833–92)
          Law Professor / Teaches Roman law in 1862.
      •  Pailhé
          Law Professor / Second chair of Roman Law in 1875–77.
      •  Tartari, Charles
          Dean and Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1881.
      •  Beaudoin
          Law Professor / Second chair of Roman Law in 1885–99.
      •  Fournier, Paul Eugène Louis (1853–1935)
          Dean and Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1885–1914.
      •  Grandclaude, Joseph François Maurice Anne Marie (1887–1950)
          Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1927–30.
      •  Levet, Albert (1901–35)
          Law Professor / First chair of Roman Law in 1931–35.
      •  Didier, Noël (1900–58)
          Law Professor / Second chair of Roman Law in 1934–36.