sentences:  Noël du Fail was born into a rural noble family, at the family property of Château-Letard.He studied law and obtained an office at the provincial courts in Rennes in 1552.As magistrate, he wrote a collection of legal decisions from the Brittany parliament, "Mémoires recueillis et extraits des plus notables et solennels arrests du Parlement de Bretagne" (1579).