Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide (Introducing...) by Lloyd Spencer

Author:Lloyd Spencer [Spencer, Lloyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785780066
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2015-09-03T05:00:00+00:00

The French Parlements

France in the 18th century was deeply divided over the questions of political authority. The king and his ministers were frequently in some sort of dispute with the parlements, the great French law courts dominated by the aristocracy, who claimed that these courts had the right to examine laws and reject those they did not like.

A PARLEMENT IS THE HIGHEST JUDICIAL BODY IN THE LAND.

IT ALSO FUNCTIONS AS A CENSOR OF THEATRE AND OF PUBLIC MORALS GENERALLY.

There were in all thirteen parlements in France, that of Paris exercising the most influence.

Offices in the parlements could be bought, and were hereditary; the higher ones bestowed nobility on their possessors who jealously insisted on the dignity of the “nobility of the robe” (noblesse de la robe) as against the “nobility of the sword” (noblesse d’epée).

Parlementariens were protocol-mad, and their processional return every November after their summer recess was one of the great ritual spectacles of the year.

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