François Pollet (died around 1547) was a lawyer from Douai, then in the County of Flanders (Habsburg Netherlands).

Life

Pollet studied law at Leuven University and for a number of years became a lecturer in law at the University of Paris. He was then called to the bar, and returned to his native Douai, where he married and maintained a legal practice. He died young, leaving the incomplete manuscript of a study of Roman legal institutions. His work was later edited and put into print by his son-in-law, Philippe Broïde, a member of the city council of Douai.

François Pollet

Publications

Historia Fori Romani (Douai, Jan Bogard, 1576) Available on Google Books

References

16th-century deaths

Lawyers from the Habsburg Netherlands

16th-century writers in Latin

Old University of Leuven alumni

People from Douai

Renaissance humanists

François Pollet