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.

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 ).

The Parlement instituted criminal charges against the King, and he joined forces with his heir, the Protestant Henry of Navarre, setting up the Parliament of Tours.

* Noblesse de robe ( nobility of the robe ): person or family made noble by holding certain official charges, like masters of requests, treasurers, or Presidents of Parlement 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.

In these remonstrances, the Parlement, which was made up of privileged aristocrats and ennobled commoners, proclaimed itself the " natural defender of the fundamental laws of the kingdom " against the arbitrariness of the monarchy.

Condé's forces became trapped against the city walls and the Porte St Antoine, which the Parlement refused to open ; he was coming under increasingly heavy fire from the Royalist artillery and the situation looked bleak.

He censored the press, established a large network of internal spies, forbade the discussion of political matters in public assemblies such as the Parlement de Paris ( a court of justice ), and had those who dared to conspire against him prosecuted and executed.

The reign of Francis II, Duke of Brittany is notable in many respects including two wars against Charles VIII of France, both of which were lost, the establishment of the Parlement of Brittany, and the death of all his children save for his daughter Anne of Brittany.

When Damville went into revolt in October 1574 ( aligning with the protestants of lower Languedoc ) he was deprived of his office by the Parlement of Toulouse, and arrests were made of his associates charged with conspiracy against the king.

In volume one of his French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle describes the death of Lally as a judicial murder, reporting that Lally was driven to execution gagged to prevent his crying out against the injustice, and that when Lally's son came of age, he sought to have his father's name cleared in the Parlement de Paris.

In 1762 the Parlement Français, ( a court, not a legislature ), ruled against the Society in a huge bankruptcy case under pressure from a host of groups-from within the Church, but also secular intellectuals and the king's mistress.

The Society had been dissolved by order of the Parlement of Paris, inspired by Jansenist magistrates, against the will of the King.

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.

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.

On 22 February 1635, at Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing the body ; according to the letters patent registered at the Parlement de Paris on 10 July 1637, the Académie française was " to labor with all the care and diligence possible, to give exact rules to our language, to render it capable of treating the arts and sciences ".

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.

after receiving support in the form of a papal bull of 1531, King James V established a separate institution — the College of Justice or Court of Session — in 1532, with a structure based on that of the Parlement of Paris.

** Droit de remontrance – this was the right of the Parlement de Paris to revoke a law made by a King who had died ; this allowed the parlement and the Regent to withdraw the late kings will without question ;

Louis XV was weak ; his wife and children were in favor of the Jesuits ; his able first minister, the Duc de Choiseul, played into the hands of the Parlement, and the royal mistress, Madame de Pompadour, to whom the Jesuits had refused absolution, for she was living in sin with the King of France, was a determined opponent.

In 1443, following the turmoil of the Hundred Years ' War, King Charles VII of France granted Languedoc its own parlement by establishing the Parlement of Toulouse, the first parlement outside of Paris ; its jurisdiction extended over most of southern France.

The Parlement recognized the King of France and the edict of Nantes was accepted in 1600.

* Sarah Hanley, The ' Lit de Justice ' of the Kings of France: Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse ( 1983 ); details corrected in Mack P. Holt, " The King in Parlement: The Problem of the Lit de Justice in Sixteenth-Century France " The Historical Journal 31. 3 ( September 1988: 507-523 ).