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Antonin Deloume
1836–1911
A French jurist and writer from Toulouse, he devoted much of his work to Roman law, criminal law, and the history of legal institutions. He also played a major role in legal education in southern France, combining scholarship with a long academic career.
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Les manieurs d'argent à Rome jusqu'à l'Empire
by Antonin Deloume
About the author
Born in Toulouse in June 1836, Jean-Antonin Deloume became a lawyer and legal scholar whose career stayed closely tied to his native city. Reliable reference sources identify him as a French jurist, and university and historical records note that he rose through the Toulouse law faculty after early academic success, including a prize-winning legal memoir.
Deloume is best remembered for his work as a professor and later dean of the Faculty of Law in Toulouse. His published writings focused on subjects such as Roman law, criminal law, and legal history, showing a strong interest in how institutions and financial power shaped society. Among the works associated with him are studies of criminal law and a well-known book on money handlers in ancient Rome.
He died in January 1911 in Pau. Today, he is mainly of interest to readers of legal history and nineteenth-century French scholarship, especially those drawn to the intellectual world of the Toulouse law school.