Paris in the 17th century was the largest city in Europe, with a population of half a million, matched in size only by London. It was ruled in turn by...

A bourgeois of Paris was traditionally a member of one of the corporations or guilds that existed under the Ancien Régime. According to Article 173 of...

city, including the Provost of Paris and Governor of Paris, were nobles named by the King. The Provost and Echevins of Paris had prestige; formal costumes...

election of the Provost of the merchants and the échevins, or municipal magistrates. 1464 Performance in Paris of La Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin, the...

419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) was a consecrated virgin, and is the patron saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast day is on 3 January....

sense; all the échevins or consuls were on equal footing, and rendered decisions collegially. However, for certain purposes there was one échevin or consul...

Paris, the Chancellor of France, 4 princes of the blood, several comtes and seigneurs, the Provost of Merchants and the echevins of the city of Paris...

présidial court were restored to their offices over the objections of the échevins (alderman) and clerics in December. In Saintonge by contrast the return...

originate from a nickname. From 1351, we find in Reims the trace of three échevins succeeding one another from father to son: Colart, then Pierrat and finally...

(échevin) or prévôt (Provost, or "municipal functionary") in certain towns (such as Abbeville and Angers, Angoulême, Bourges, Lyon, Toulouse, Paris, Perpignan...

corresponded to Poitiers' mayor, the Roman Senate to the town's peers and échevins, and the democratic element in Rome corresponded to the fact that most...

third-place amongst CSV candidates (six were elected); he was appointed as an échevin in the DP-CSV administration, and served in this position from 1st January...

was struck by plague. On September 8, 1643, the municipal councillors (échevins) promised to pay tribute to Mary if the town was spared. Ever since, a...

Bennani tire sa révérence à l'âge de 87 ans (in French) Nivelles : l'ancien échevin Alberto Borin s'est éteint ce mardi (in French) James D. Brubaker, Producer...

Europe, situated 213 km (132 mi) by road from Brussels, 372 km (231 mi) from Paris, and 209 km (130 mi) from Cologne. The city contains Luxembourg Castle,...

Donna Rafaela Fernand René as Un échevin Louis Florencie as Un échevin Jacqueline Duc as La mariée Guy Decomble as Un échevin Sieglohr p.50 "Festival de Cannes:...

Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris, total deaths are estimated as between 3,000 and 5,000, roughly equivalent to those incurred in Paris. These events severely...

("nobility of the chain") – échevins (mayors) or prévôts des marchands (merchants' provosts) in certain important towns, including Paris, Angers, Angoulême, Bourges...

doi:10.3406/bcrh.1862.3033. Page 347: Lettre de Philippe le Beau aux échevins..., quote: "Escript en nostre ville de Gand, le XXIIIIme de febvrier, l'an...

1562, seventeen of the twenty-four échevins (aldermen) were Protestant. During the ascension day procession, the échevins ensured it would be four of their...

associated with their social structure (baron/baronne, bâtard, bru, chambellan, échevin, félon, féodal, forban, gars/garçon, leude, lige, maçon, maréchal, marquis...

UCLA Mourns Loss of Legendary Coach Glenn Bassett Richard Biefnot, ancien échevin de la ville de Mons, est décédé des suites d'une maladie à 71 ans (in French)...

ancient Périgourdin lineage whose brother in law the sieur de Buy, an échevin (alderman) of Metz had been executed by the Lorraine administration after...

Gilles Dumas (born 1962), French rugby league footballer and coach Gilles Échevin (born 1948), Guadeloupean-born French track and field athlete Gilles Elseneer...

election of Catholic échevins, excluding Huguenot candidates from the vote. The Protestants of the town, outraged sent petitions to Paris, to inform Nevers...

all or many of the books became the property of the king. In 1648 the échevins (municipal magistrates) of Marseille petitioned Pope Innocent X to secularise...

elected to the Brussels city council on a liberal list. He became schepen or échevin of education in 1879. Buls was a supporter of progressive causes, especially...

Maria Petrini, Alessia Orla, Tamara Stonova, Anna Godoy Contreras, Marine Echevin, Pauline Moniere. Brive Limousin Triathlon: Aurélie Ajzenberg, Emma Davis...

1350 in the small town of Mantes-la-Jolie, about 50 km (30 mi) west of Paris. Although not a cathedral, it was built on a cathedral-like scale. Its grandeur...

to Paris in 1418, but had to flee again in 1436 when the constable, Arthur, Earl of Richmond, took the city. Gamier de Saint Yon was échevin of Paris in...