Parlement of Paris (French: Parlement de Paris) was the oldest parlement in the Kingdom of France, formed in the 14th century. It was fixed in Paris by...
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the original and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. Though both the modern French term parlement (for the legislature) and the English...
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Louis XV (redirect from Louis XV of France)
France for the next eight years. Philippe saw the trap. The Parlement of Paris, an assembly of French nobles among whom Philippe had many friends, was the...
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the Parlement of Paris was refusing to ratify Charles Alexandre de Calonne's program of badly needed financial reform, due to the special interests of its...
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culmination of several years of slowly liberalising edicts which had begun with the 1560 Edict of Amboise. After two months the Paris Parlement would be...
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The Fronde (redirect from Fronde of the Parlement)
of the parlements – courts of appeal rather than legislative bodies like the English parliaments – and especially the right of the Parlement of Paris...
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bringing the Reign of Terror to a close. Lit de justice at the Parlement of Paris on 12 September 1715 Lit de justice of the Parlement of Paris, attended by...
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Lit de justice (redirect from Bed of Justice)
[li də ʒystis], "bed of justice") was a particular formal session of the Parlement of Paris, under the presidency of the King of France, for the compulsory...
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Louis XIV (redirect from King Louis XIV of France)
18 May Queen Anne had her husband's will annulled by the Parlement de Paris, a judicial body of nobles and high clergymen, and she became sole regent. She...
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René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (category Chancellors of France)
noblesse de robe, the eldest son of René Charles de Maupeou (1688–1775), who was president of the parlement of Paris from 1743 to 1757. In 1744 he married...
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Jacques le Gris (category Year of birth uncertain)
engaged in one of the last judicial duels permitted by the Parlement of Paris after he was accused of rape by Marguerite de Carrouges, the wife of his neighbour...
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(1790–1848) Rue de Buci named after Simon de Buci, President of the Parlement of Paris, who had purchased the Gate Saint-Germain (now demolished) in...
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Cardinal Mazarin (category Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome)
Peace of Westphalia (1646–1648). A major uprising against Anne of Austria and Mazarin, called the Fronde and led by the nobles of the Parlement of Paris, broke...
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Louis XVIII (redirect from Restoration of Louis XVIII of France)
edicts; each province had its own parlement, but the Parlement of Paris was the most significant of all.) The Parlement of Paris refused to accept Brienne's...
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Estates General (France) (redirect from Estates-General of France)
The Estates General were distinct from the parlements (the most powerful of which was the Parlement of Paris), which started as appellate courts but later...
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The Parlement of Rouen (French: Parlement de Rouen), also known as the Parlement of Normandy (French: Parlement de Normandie) after the place where it...
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Louis de la Pivardière (category Year of death missing)
surrounding the case, the court venue shifted to the Parlement of Paris. The first hearing in Paris of the Pivardière case was on 10 May 1698. The biggest...
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declared his intention to live in Paris. Since the old royal palace on the Île-de-la-Cité was occupied by the Parlement of Paris, he announced that he would...
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minority of Louis XV. In 1770, Louis XV and René de Maupeou again curtailed the power of the parlements, except for the Parlement of Paris, the one that...
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Witch trials in France (redirect from Witch trials of France)
France to be confirmed by the Parlement of Paris before they could be carried out. With one exception, the Parlement of Paris stopped confirming death sentenced...
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the Parlement of Paris. It was first created in 1420, but definitely established by edicts in 1437 and 1443 by Charles VII as an appellate court of justice...
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The Parlement of Rennes or Parlement of Brittany (Parlement de Bretagne, Breujoù Breizh) was one of the parlements, a court of justice under the French...
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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria)
Parlement of Paris, Rohan was found innocent of any wrongdoing and allowed to leave the Bastille. Marie Antoinette, who had insisted on the arrest of...
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Charles Alexandre de Calonne (category Viscounts of France)
the Parlement and the Assembly of Notables. Realizing that the Parlement of Paris would never agree to reform, Calonne handpicked an Assembly of Notables...
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Jean de Carrouges (category Christians of the Battle of Nicopolis)
medieval France for fighting in one of the last judicial duels permitted by the French king and the Parlement of Paris (the actual last duel occurred in...
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French Parliament (redirect from Parlement français)
The French Parliament (French: Parlement français) is the bicameral legislature of the French Fifth Republic, consisting of the Senate (Sénat) and the National...
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politician of the Revolutionary period and procureur at the parlement of Paris. Born in Rouy-le-Petit (Somme), he was from early on an advocate of revolutionary...
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Palais de la Cité (category Medieval Paris)
century until the French Revolution, it was the headquarters of the Parlement of Paris. During the Revolution it served as a courthouse and prison, where...
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JSTOR 3165566. S2CID 162701996. Soman, Alfred (July 1978). "The Parlement of Paris and the Great Witch Hunt (1565-1640)". Sixteenth Century Journal....
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moment of seeming victory, the envy of the Duke of Mayenne was aroused, and he blocked the proposed election of a king. The Parlement of Paris also upheld...
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