In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog ( Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard ) ( 1904 ), sold for US $ 20. 1 million.

The royal edict, registered by the Parlement of Paris on March 15, 1667 created the office of lieutenant général de police (" lieutenant general of police "), who was to be the head of the new Paris police force, and defined the task of the police as " ensuring the peace and quiet of the public and of private individuals, purging the city of what may cause disturbances, procuring abundance, and having each and everyone live according to their station and their duties ".

In France, the Parlement de Paris, with its strong upper bourgeois background and Jansenist sympathies, opened the pressure to expel the Jesuits from France in the spring of 1761, and the published excerpts from Jesuit writings, the Extrait des assertions, provided anti-Jesuit ammunition ( though, arguably, many of the statements the Extrait contained were made to look worse than they were through judicious omission of context ).

The political situation in 1787 began to worsen when the Parlement was exiled, and culminated on 11 November, when the king tried to use a lit de justice to force through legislation.

File: Parlement de Bretagne-2006. jpg | The Parlement of Brittany, built 1618 – 1655.

The Parlement de Bretagne ( Administrative and judicial centre of Brittany, ) is the most famous 17th century building in Rennes.

File: Parlement de Bretagne DSC08926. jpg | Palais du Parlement de Bretagne

Other famous structures include the Gothic Church of St Maclou ( 15th century ); the Tour Jeanne d ' Arc, where Joan of Arc was brought in 1431 to be threatened with torture ( contrary to popular belief, she was not imprisoned there ); the Church of Saint Ouen ( 12th – 15th century ); the Palais de Justice, which was once the seat of the Parlement ( French court of law ) of Normandy and the Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics which contains a splendid collection of faïence and porcelain for which Rouen was renowned during the 16th to 18th centuries.

Before the faculty could do so, the Parlement de Paris intervened, forbidding the Sorbonne faculty to consider the propositions.

Some scholars believe Louis XV's decisions damaged the power of France, weakened the treasury, discredited the absolute monarchy, and may have led to the French Revolution which broke out 15 years after his death Other scholars argue that this reputation is based on propaganda meant to justify the French Revolution, and, by dismissing the Parlement de Paris and reforming the tax code, Louis set France on a path of stability late in his reign.

Tried by the Parlement of Paris, Damiens was executed on the Place de Grève on 28 March 1757.

His dismissal of the Parlement de Paris and his chief Minister, Choisieul, in 1771, were attempts to wrest control of government from those Louis considered corrupt.

Brienne's reforms were then submitted to the Parlement de Paris in the hopes that they would be approved.

) The Parlement de Paris refused to accept Brienne ’ s proposals, and pronounced that any new taxation would have to be approved by an Estates-General ( the nominal parliament of France ).

Louis XVI and Brienne took a hostile stance against the parlement's rejection, and Louis XVI had to implement a Lit de justice ( which automatically registered an edict in the Parlement de Paris ) to ratify the desired reforms.

On 8 May, Jean-Jacques Duval d ' Eprémesnil and Goislard de Montsabert, two of the leading members of the Parlement de Paris were arrested.

Henry III responded by having the Duke and his brother murdered later that year, whereupon Bussy-Leclerc used the Bastille as a base to mount a raid on the Parlement de Paris, arresting the president and other magistrates, whom he suspected of having royalist sympathies, and detaining them in the Bastille.

With the aid of Pierre Séguier, she had the Parlement de Paris revoke the will of the late king, which would have limited her powers.

The Parlement of Paris feared the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to rig the results.

This king was responsible for the end of the Knights Templar, signed the Auld Alliance, and established the Parlement of Paris.

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

Henceforth Versailles was the possession of the Gondi family, a family of wealthy and influential parliamentarians at the Parlement of Paris.

* Louis XV of France authorizes a 5 % income tax on every individual regardless of social status ; the Parlement of Paris protests.

* The ancient right to evaluate royal decrees publicly before they are given the force of law by the high court of Paris ( the Parlement ) is restored.

* The Paris Parlement has the city's beggars arrested ' to force them to work in the sewers, chained together in pairs '.

The Archives Nationales in Paris preserves only the text of a shorter document modified by concessions extracted from the King by the clergy and the Parlement of Paris, which delayed ten months before finally signing and setting seals to the document in 1599.

The Old Conseil Delphinal became a Parlement ( the third one in France after the Parliaments of Paris and Toulouse ), strengthening the status of Grenoble as a Provincial capital.

On 15 February 1723, the king's majority was declared by the Parlement of Paris.

As for the Gallican opposition, after the " exile " of 139 parlementaires in the provinces, the Parlement of Paris had to register the Unigenitus papal bull and was forbidden to hear religious cases in the future.

As a result of these attempts at reform, the Parlement of Paris, using the quarrel between the clergy and the Jansenists as a pretext, addressed remonstrances to the king ( April 1753 ).

Marie Antoinette was not directly involved with the exile of the Parlement, the May Edicts or with the announcement regarding the Estates General.

This period of war is also notable for beginning of Parliamentary Rule in Brittany, marked by the founding of the Estates of Brittany which would work later with the Parlement of Brittany during the reign of Duke Francis II.

The latter was claimed by Charles of Anjou, but in 1283 Parlement decided that the County of Toulouse should revert to the crown, if there were no male heirs.

In February 1701, the French King caused the Parlement of Paris ( a court ) to register a decree that should Louis himself have no heir then the Duke of Anjou — Phillip V of Spain — would surrender the Spanish throne for that of the French, ensuring dynastic continuity in Europe's greatest land power.

In February 1701, the French King caused the Parlement of Paris ( a court ) to register a decree that should Louis himself have no heir that the Duc d ' Anjou ( Phillip V of Spain ) would surrender the Spanish throne for that of the French, ensuring dynastic continuity in Europe's greatest land power.

This power should be " sovereign ", i. e., not be subject to any other branch, though to some extent limited by institutions like the high courts ( Parlement ) and representative assemblies ( États ).

* 1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.

When questioned about his decision to recall Parlement Louis made a comment that, “ It may be considered politically unwise, but it seems to me to be the general wish and I want to be loved .” In spite of his indecisiveness, Louis was determined to be a good king, stating that he " must always consult public opinion ; it is never wrong.

It was the first parlement created outside of Paris by the kings of France in order to be the equivalent of the Parlement of Paris in the far-away southern territories of the kingdom.

The Parlement of Toulouse was the supreme court of justice for this vast area of France, the court of last resort whose rulings could not be appealed, not even to the Parlement of Paris.

After lengthy hearings at the Parlement de Paris, it was decided that guilt could not be decided through a standard jury trial, and a judicial duel was ordered.

His religious convictions on the outbreak of the wars of Wars of Religion in 1562 cannot be determined, but he affirmed formally his Catholic faith, taking an oath that year along with other members of the Parlement.

During the Fronde in 1648, the members of Parlement of the Chambre Saint-Louis demanded the Intendants be suppressed ; Mazarin and Anne of Austria gave in to these demands except in the case of border provinces threatened by Spanish or Imperial attack.

Above Picard quarrels, even above the justice of Parlement, the responsibility for such errors must be attributed to the general current, to the false collective appreciation of a time.

He was condemned as a regicide by the Parlement of Paris, and sentenced to be drawn and quartered by horses at the Place de Grève.

Though his father had legitimated him and his three surviving siblings, and even declared his two sons by Madame de Montespan fit to eventually succeed him to the throne of France, this was not to be, as immediately after Louis XIV's death the Parlement of Paris reversed the king's will.

In general, these lettres needed to be officially registered with the Parlement.