LABOULAYE, Edouard Ren6 Lefebvre de, A-doo-fir re-n3 le-favr la-boo-11, French publicist and jurist : b. Paris, 18 Jan. 1811; d. there, 23 May 1883. He studied law and in 1842 hejoined the Paris bar. He was a close student of the great German writers on juris prudence, whose works and researches he in troduced to his countrymen in a series of able essays, written in an admirable.style. The Acad emy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres crowned his glistoire du Droit de Propriete Fonciere) (1839), and elected him to its membership in 1845. An (Essai sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de Savigny> (1840), was followed by 'Recherches sur la Condition civile et politique des Femmes) (1843), and an (Essai sur les Lois criininelles des Romains) (1845), both crowned by the Academy of Moral Sciences. In 1849 he was appointed professor of legislation in the College de France. After the foundation of the Second Empire he constantly strove to rouse opposition to it, and in several published works as well as in his lectures held up the American Constitution to the admiration of his countrymen. In his en Amerique) (1863), an ingenious and delightful satirical romance, which passed rapidly through 30 edi tions, he held up to a ridicule that was but thinly disguised the Napoleonic regime.
Caniche> was another extremely popu lar novel on the same lines and had the effect of disintegrating in the minds of the French people attachment to the empire. The popular ity of Laboulaye, however, declined somewhat through his support of the plebiscite in 1870, and soon afterward be resigned his chair at the College de France. After the fall of the em pire he was elected for Paris in 1871. In 1875 he was elected a life senator. Besides the works above mentioned he wrote des Etats-Unis d'Amerique) (1854); Con temporaines sur et les Pays Slaves) (1854) ; d'un (1857); Religieuse) (1858) ; sur la Propriete Litteraire en France et en Arigleterre) (1858) ; (1859), an Arab romance; (L'Etat et Ses Limites) (1863) ; en Amerique) (1863), an ingenious and extremely popular satirical romance; Bleus) (1864), a series of admirably told tales; (1865); et Nouvelles> (1868); Populaires> (1869), etc. He trans lated into French several of Channing's works and the and Correspondence of with an introduction. Consult Bige low, J., Recollections of the Late Edouard Laboulaye) (New York 1889): See