[Gustave Bascle]. French justiciary and archæologist, born at Pau, Basses-Pyrénées, on the 23rd of August 1811. He was the son of a distinguished magistrate of the ancient family of Du Quercy. He studied law in Paris and was admitted to the bar, and filled several positions in the courts of his native city, and in 1881 received the honorary title of councilor. He was elected to the council-general of the Basses-Pyrénées, was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and bore foreign decorations. His works on jurisprudence include Le Droit Criminel à l’Usage des Jurés (1854); De la Réorganisation de la Magistrature (1871); Le Parlement de Navarre (1873). His works on archæology are Chronique du Château et de la Ville de Lourdes (1845; revised and extended in 1887); Antiquités du Béarn (1848); Le Trésor de Pau (1851); Le Château de Pau (1854); Histoire Religieuse de la Bigorre (1864); La Féodalité dans les Pyrénées (1864); Rome et Naples (1864); Histoire du Droit dans les Pyrénées (1867, which obtained complimentary mention at the Concours des Antiquités Nationales in 1868); Henri IV, Vie Privée, Détails Inédits (1884); Pompéi, les Catacombes, l’Alhambra (1872); and Le Saul du procureur (1879).
