Etienne Pasquier, a French author, born in Paris, April 7, 1529, died Aug. 31, 1615. He first appeared in 1549 in the capacity of attorney before the parliament of Paris. After publishing Le Monophile and Les collogues (Vamour, in prose, and several miscellaneous poems, he produced in 1561 the first book of his Recherches de la France. In 1564 he was counsel for the university in its lawsuit with the Jesuits. In 1585 he was appointed attorney general to the court of accounts, and in 1588 was elected a deputy to the states general at Blois. He accompanied the royalist members of the parliament who, under Henry III., held their sessions at Tours, and returned to Paris with Henry IV. He now found himself involved in new quarrels with the Jesuits. In 1603 he resigned his office of attorney general to his eldest son, and devoted his later years to revising and publishing his literary works. Most of these were printed in 2 vols, fol. (Amsterdam, 1723). Besides his invaluable Ee-cherches de la France in 9 books, they include 22 books of familiar letters, affording ample information upon the manners of tho time. Leon Feugere has edited his (Euxres choisies (2 vols. 18mo, Paris, 1849), with an excellent biographical and critical notice.

Pas-quier's fame as a jurist has been fully vindicated by the publication of his Interpretation des Institutes de Justinien, edited by M. Charles Giraud (4to, Paris, 1847).