A. L. Droz, Georges Keywords: Public notaries | Private international law | Mots clefs: Notariat | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Georges Droz, former Secretary-General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, starts by describing the notarial function both in countries that have a proper notarial system (countries known as belonging to the latin notarial system) and in those countries where, even if the institution is not very widespread, the notarial function is nevertheless exerted. The author …