The Centre Toulousain d’Histoire du Droit et des Idées Politiques was created in 1995 after merging two research centres, one specialising in the history of southern law, and the other specialising in the history of political ideas. Two years later, on the initiative of Jean Bastier and the “dreams of a legal historian”2, the Études d’histoire du droit et des idées politiques was created. It was fully developed under the supervision of Jacques Krynen.