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LABORDE in criminal law, DUBOIS in constitutional law, 

 VALERY in international private law, and MOYE in inter- 

 national public law. It offers courses in the usual sub- 

 jects taught in French law faculties. 



The University of Nancy, likewise one of the smaller 

 institutions, possesses an able law faculty of 17 profes- 

 sors and agreges, including such well-known scholars as 

 GENY in civil law, MICHON in legal history, ROLLAND in 

 administrative law, GAVET in public law, and SIMONET 

 in constitutional law. The University has a library of 

 nearly 200,000 volumes; and the city library contains 

 about 145,000 volumes, including the publications of 

 over 400 learned societies and 263 reviews and peri- 

 odicals. 



One of the oldest and best known provincial universi- 

 ties is that of Poitiers, which has an able law faculty and 

 a library of 100,000 volumes and 180,000 theses and 

 brochures. The University of Rennes, situated in the 

 picturesque country of Brittany, maintains a summer 

 school and, like Dijon and Grenoble, makes a special 

 appeal to foreign students. It has a law faculty of 

 about 20 members, several of whom enjoy distinguished 

 reputations. The university library contains 150,000 

 volumes and over 67,000 brochures. It is unique in 

 possessing a collection of the British and Foreign state 

 papers of 560 volumes. 



The Universities of Bordeaux and of Toulouse, to 

 mention only two others, have strong law faculties, and 

 offer excellent facilities for the study of political science 

 and public law. Among the professors of Bordeaux, the 

 best known to American scholars is Leon DUGUIT, the 

 most eminent of the living French authorities in the 

 fields of constitutional law and political science. At 

 Toulouse, perhaps the best known to us are ROUARD 

 DE CARD, in international private law, MERIGNHAC, in 



