Antoine (Anton) Faure or Favre - Latin, Faber). A biographical note of him appears in Brockhaus "Conversations Lexicon" 1844, vol V p 166. Knight, Baron ?eroges, President of the Council of Cevennes and subsequently First President of the Council of Savoy. He studied at Paris and Turin and was appointed in 1581 Administrator of Justice in Bourg-en-Bresse, which at that time belonged to the Duchy of Savoy. After Bresse became a French possession he left for Chambery, where he became President of the Supreme Court in 1610.

He is said to have held peculiar views, differing from opinions generally accepted. He gained for himself a reputaion for erudition, of which his writings bear evidence. The "Codex Fabrinanus", a folio volume, published at Lyons in 1661, comprises a collection of his judicial decisons, and was widely distributed and highly prized in Germany as well as in his own country. Such was also the case with his "Rationalia in Pandectas" (Three volumes, published at Lyons, 1659-1663), "De erroribus pragmaticorum etinterpretum juris" (Two folio volumes, published at Lyons, 1658) and "Conjectuarum Juris civilis, libri xx (Folio published at Lyons, 1661)

He and Beneito, Countess de Vaugelas had sixteen sons.