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Biography
Raymond Saleilles was born on 14 January 1855 in Beaune.

After having received a secondary education in his hometown, at the Beaune college, he received a higher education in the field of law at the independent free faculty of the Catholic Institute in Paris. He was president of the Conférence Olivaint in 1879. In 1883, he supported his doctoral thesis, prepared under the direction of Claude Bufnoir. In 1884, he was received at the aggregation competition. He is delegated by the Minister to the Faculty of Law of Grenoble where he remains a year as a professor of the history of law. In 1885, he was transferred to the Faculty of Law of Dijon where he also taught the history of law for ten years; From 1889 to 1895, he taught constitutional law there. In Dijon, he is the secretary general of the Burgundian journal whom he helped to found. In 1895, he left Dijon for Paris whose law faculty recruited him, as an aggregated, to supplement Jules Leveillé, elected deputy of the Seine; He taught civil law there and, between 1895 and 1898, he was responsible for a comparative criminal legislation course. He was established as a professor of civil law on November 28, 1898; He occupies this position until the end of his life. In 1901, a comparative civil law course was created for it. In 1902, he founded the Legislative Study Society of which he was the Secretary General. In 1904, he was initiated by the Centenary Civil Code celebrations. A Catholic, Raymond Saleilles was the legal advisor and a close friend of Father Lemire.