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

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 ).

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

The Parlement de Paris recommended that the Estates should be the same as they were at the last assembly, in 1614 ( this would mean that the clergy and nobility would have more representation than the Third Estate ).

On 17 August 1563, Charles IX was declared of age at the Parlement of Rouen, but he was never able to rule on his own and showed little interest in government.

The Parlement of Paris, the Regency government of Anne of Austria and rebellious noble factions fought for several years to take control of the city and wider power.

Tonti put his proposal to the French royal government, but after consideration it was rejected by the Parlement de Paris.

The Conseil du Roi, which would evolve into the Parlement, was founded in these times.

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.

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.

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.

The work would bring him to the attention of Henri de Mesme, President of the Paris Parlement.

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 wars with France eventually cost Ducal Brittany is independence, while the Parlement ensured a degree of autonomy that would continue through the reign of Louis XIV of France.

A revolution would become necessary for the town to escape from the Parlement lead.

For not only did the Parlement support the lower court, May 8, 1761, but having once gotten the case into its hands, the Jesuits ' enemies in that assembly determined to strike a blow at the Order.

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.

But, her will was invalidated by Parlement in 1274 One specific bequest in Alphonse's will, giving his wife's lands in the Comtat Venaissin to the Holy See, was allowed, and it became a Papal territory, a status that it retained until 1791.

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.

An amusing anecdote is about Henry III's attending the French Parlement, as Duke of Aquitaine ; however, the King of England was always late because he liked to stop each time he met a priest to hear the mass, so Louis made sure no priest was on the way of Henry III.

Henry III and Louis IX then started a long contest for who was the most faithful ; this evolved to the point that none ever arrived on time to the Parlement, which was then allowed to debate in their absence.

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

To the arrêt of 2 August 1762, by which the Parlement suppressed the Jesuits in France, imposing untenable conditions on any wishing to remain in the country, Clement XIII replied by a protest against the invasion of the Church's rights, and annulled the arrêts.

Louis XVI issued a decree banning these practices on 8 August 1779 but the Parlement of Besançon blocked this till 1787.

* The Parlement law courts of ancien régime France are established.

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.

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

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.