Marcel Planiol was a French professor of law at the University of Rennes, then at the Sorbonne.
13 Facts About Marcel Planiol
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Marcel Planiol wrote on the law and on historical Brittany.
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Marcel Planiol is known for his Elementary Treatise of Civil Law, which attempted to explain French civil law in terms of elementary principles, particularly the maxims of Roman law.
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Marcel Planiol was born on 23 September 1853 in Nantes, Atlantique.
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Marcel Planiol's parents were Amand Planiol and Julie Elisabeth Laporte.
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Marcel Planiol married in Rennes on 4 May 1885 to Madeleine Jeanne Claudel.
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Marcel Planiol obtained his agregation in 1880, and was accepted by the University of Grenoble as a teacher of civil law, Roman law and tax law.
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Marcel Planiol was elected to the University of Rennes in 1882, then to the Sorbonne in 1887, where he succeeded Charles Beudant.
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Marcel Planiol was made a Professor at the Paris Faculty of Law.
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Marcel Planiol taught Roman law, inheritance, labour law, patent law and criminal law.
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In 1899 Marcel Planiol began work on the Traite elementaire de droit civil, which would make his reputation.
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Marcel Planiol died on 31 August 1931 in Paris at the age of 77.
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Marcel Planiol contributed to La Grande Encyclopedie of Andre Berthelot and wrote on public and private law in Brittany, a work that won an award from the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.