Pierre Crabitès COLLECTION, addendum 1

 

 

(Mss 252)

 

 

Inventory

 

 

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

 

October 1993

 

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

 

Biographical Note

 

Container List

 

Index Terms

 

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

Size:                          3 boxes

 

Geographic

locations:                 Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La.

 

Inclusive dates:      ca. 1940; 1947, 1948

 

Summary:                Unpublished typescript by Pierre Crabitès, entitled "Napoleon, the Code Maker: His Mind in Action."  Two spiral-bound typescript volumes, one on onionskin and one on standard weight paper, both with autograph notations and emendations by Crabitès; together with a two-page typescript of scholarly statements about the Code, and two pieces of correspondence between Mrs. Crabitès and a publisher.

 

Related

collections:              Pierre Crabitès Collection (Mss 73)

 

Source:                     Gift, October 1993

 

Access:                     No restrictions

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Copyright:                Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

 

Citation:                    Pierre Crabitès Collection, Addendum 1, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

 

 

 

Biographical Note

 

 

Crabitès, Pierre

            born February 17, 1877 (New Orleans, LA)

            died October 9, 1943 (Baghdad, Iraq)

 

            Pierre Crabitès, the son of Pierre and Martha (née Patton) Crabitès, was born February 17, 1877, at 252 Marais Street in the Faubourg Treme section of New Orleans, Louisiana.  His father, a native of Sus, France, died when young Pierre was seven years old, and he was raised by his mother and her family.  After earning a master's degree at the College of the Immaculate Conception, he completed work for a law degree from Tulane University in 1898, before pursuing further graduate work at the University of Paris and the University of Berlin.  Returning to New Orleans the next year, he began the practice of law in the firm of Cage, Baldwin, and Crabitès.

 

            Well traveled, an outstanding linguist and lawyer, and well connected socially, Crabitès was recommended to and appointed by President William H. Taft in 1911 to the International Mixed Tribunals of Egypt, also known as the Mixed Courts of Egypt.  The purpose of the Mixed Courts was to consolidate the many different consular courts which had previously functioned in Egypt.  Taking with him his wife, Charlotte, and their son Henry, Crabitès served on the court from 1911 until his retire­ment in 1936, when he returned to Louisiana and joined the faculty of the Law School of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.  With the outbreak of World War II he served as an advisor to United States missions in the Middle East, where he died suddenly on October 9, 1943, in Baghdad.  Crabitès was the author of ten books and numerous scholarly and popular articles.

 

 

 

Container List

 

 

252-1              Typescript volumes; scholarly statements; correspondence.

 

 

 

Index Terms

 

 

Crabitès, Pierre

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821