Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac

Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac was born at Toulouse to an old family of the magistracy.

[1] In 1548 Pibrac was admitted to the bar at Toulouse, at once took high rank,[1] and in 1557 rose to be juge-mage,[2] an office in Languedocian cities about equal to that of privat.

[2] In 1565 Pibrac became general advocate to the Parlement of Paris, and extended the renaissance in jurisprudence which was transforming French justice.

Pibrac's fluent Latin won much applause from the Poles, but his second visit to Poland in 1575, when sent back by Henry III to try to save the Crown he had deserted, was not so successful.

He was the friend of Ronsard, de Thou and l'Hôpital, and left, among other literary remains, elegant and sententious quatraines.