French jurists

French legal scholar (1859–1928)

French jurist (1880–1952)

French jurist-consultant and politician

French jurist

The Basoche was the guild of legal clerks of the Paris court system under the pre-revolutionary French monarchy, from among whom legal representatives (procureurs) were recruited. It was an ancient institution whose roots are unclear. The word itself derives from the Latin basilica, the kind of building in which the legal trade was practiced in Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages.

French jurist-consultant

French-born American linguist, philosopher and jurist (1760-1844)