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Example sentences for "parlement"

Lexicographically close words:
parlar; parlare; parlay; parle; parleament; parlementaire; parlements; parlent; parler; parley
  1. The Parlement granted letters-patent, limited the number of academicians to forty, and required them to take cognisance of French authors and the French language alone.

  2. Then, thinking no evil, he said that good times would never return in Paris until there were a French king, the university full again, and the Parlement obeyed as in former times.

  3. We next note a Crucifixion, the famous altar-piece (998A) of the Parlement of Paris recently transferred from the Palais de Justice.

  4. Richelieu crushed the Parlement and revolutionised the provincial administrations.

  5. He chose six members from the burgesses, six from the Parlement and six from the university, to form his Council, and with daring confidence, decided to arm Paris.

  6. Ten councillors of the Parlement were imprisoned or degraded, and in three months Mazarin returned to Paris with the pomp and equipage of a sovereign.

  7. The nobles who at first sat among the lay members gradually ceased to attend owing to a sense of their legal inefficiency, and the Parlement became at length a purely legal body.

  8. The university declined to arm her scholars, Church and Parlement were hostile.

  9. The Parlement of Paris paid for its temerity: it and the whole of the parlements in France were suppressed, and seven hundred magistrates exiled by lettres de cachet.

  10. Moreover, the Parlement was but a local body, one among several others in the provinces.

  11. Now herkeneth this, ye han wel understonde, My goinge graunted is by parlement So ferforth, that it may not be with-stonde For al this world, as by my Iugement.

  12. The cause y-told of hir cominge, the olde Pryam the king ful sone in general Let here-upon his parlement to holde, Of which the effect rehersen yow I shal.

  13. In June 1764 the king, at the instance of d'Aiguillon, quashed a decree of the parlement forbidding the levying of new imposts without the consent of the estates, and refused to receive the remonstrances of the parlement against the duke.

  14. He was attacking the parlement through one of its members, and the parlement was the universally detested body formed by the chancellor Maupeou.

  15. The parlement thanked Bayard as the saviour of his country; the king made him a knight of the order of St Michael, and commander in his own name of 100 gens d'armes, an honour till then reserved for princes of the blood.

  16. He was then with the parlement and the princes, against Mazarin.

  17. While other bishops sent Beaumont their adhesion to his crusade, the parlement of Paris threatened to confiscate his temporalities.

  18. He was, however, unable to obtain an interview with Goezman, the member of the parlement appointed to report on his case.

  19. The parlement condemned both him and Mme Goezman au blame, i.

  20. In 1588 the duke of Guise took possession of the Bastille, gave the command of it to Bussy-Leclerc, and soon afterwards shut up the whole parlement within its walls, for having refused their adherence to the League.

  21. This moment was chosen by La Blache to demand judgment from the parlement in the matter of the Duverney agreement.

  22. October 1422, presided at a session of the parlement of Paris, and compelled all present to take an oath of fidelity to King Henry VI.

  23. It was the capital of a separate county which in 1227 was united to the duchy of Burgundy; it then became the first seat of the Burgundian parlement or jours generaux and a ducal residence.

  24. But among the members of the parlement and the other leaders of the Fronde, he was regarded as merely a tool.

  25. He was brought up to the law, and at the age of twenty-two made himself favourably known by a discourse pronounced before the local parlement on the division of political powers.

  26. His father was an advocate at the parlement of Grenoble, and his mother was a woman of high birth, superior ability and noble character.

  27. Others were independent in origin; among such being the "regency" of Rouen and the Basoche of the parlement of Toulouse.

  28. Such was the origin of the Basoche of the parlement of Paris; which naturally formed itself into a gild, like other professions and trades in the middle ages.

  29. The Basoche of the Palais de Justice had in its ancient days the right to create provostships in localities within the jurisdiction of the parlement of Paris, and thus there sprang up a certain number of local basoches.

  30. The ordinary term "Jesuit" was given to the Society by its avowed opponents; it is first found in the writings of Calvin and in the registers of the Parlement of Paris as early as 1552.

  31. Losing his cause, he appealed to the parlement of Paris, and it, to decide the issue raised by Ricci, required the constitutions of the Jesuits to be produced in evidence, and affirmed the judgment of the courts below.

  32. French prelate and diplomatist, came of a good family of Auvergne, and at the age of twenty-two was advocate at the parlement of Paris.

  33. From 1470 until the Revolution the province was under the jurisdiction of the parlement of Paris.

  34. During this trouble, a parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster, in the moneth of October next following.

  35. Sidenote: The determination of the parlement c[=o]cerning the intailing of crowne.

  36. In this parlement was granted to the king a subsidie of twelue pence the pound, towards the maintenance of his warres, of all merchandize, comming in or going out of the realme, as well of Englishmen as strangers.

  37. Against whom, soone after in open parlement were laid diuerse and heinous articles of high treason, as well for the losse of Normandie, as for the late mischance which happened in Guien.

  38. Sidenote: A parlement called by the duke of Glocester the king being in France.

  39. Sidenote: A parlement at Rone called by the duke of Bedford.

  40. After this outrage thus asswaged, the parlement was adiourned to Leicester, whither came the king and queene in great estate, and with them the duke of Suffolke as cheefe councellour.

  41. To this parlement came the marquesse Montacute, excusing himselfe, that for feare of death he declined to take king Edwards part, which excuse was accepted.

  42. He was designed for the magistracy of his province; and in 1771, when for a time the provincial parlement was suppressed, with the others, by the chancellor Maupeou, he refused to sit in the royal tribunal substituted for it.

  43. It is curious that the Parlement of Paris thought it necessary to burn the Jesuit Mariana's book De Rege (1599) as anti-monarchical, seeing that it appeared with the privilege of the King of Spain.

  44. But it is curious to think that we are only two centuries from the time when the Parlement of Paris could pass such a sentence on such a sufferer.

  45. The most important book that so suffered was Rousseau's admirable treatise on education, entitled Emile (1762), condemned by the Parlement of Paris to be torn and burnt at the foot of its great staircase.

  46. In 1623, the Parlement of Paris condemned Theophile to be burnt with his book, Le Parnasse des Poetes Satyriques, but the author escaped with his burning in effigy, and with imprisonment in a dungeon.

  47. The Parlement was investigating the matter, when La Reynie put his hand on a second association, like the first to all appearance, but soon to reveal itself to the eyes of the magistrates as an affair of much greater importance still.

  48. Madame de Dreux was the wife of a Parlement maitre des requetes.

  49. At this moment a clerk of the Parlement appeared.

  50. Madame de Brinvilliers underwent the cruelest torture then applied by the Parlement of Paris: the ordeal of water.

  51. Marie Brissart, widow of a Parlement counsellor, tenderly loved and handsomely supported a captain of guards named Louis Denis de Rubentel, Marquis de Mondetour, who became lieutenant-general in 1688.

  52. At Mezieres the marchioness met Denis de Palluau, a Parlement counsellor, whom the court had deputed to put her through a first interrogation.

  53. The daughter of a Parlement counsellor, her maiden name was Marguerite Galart.

  54. She had by Louis XIV seven children, whom the Parlement was to legitimatise and declare royal children of France.

  55. Parlement of Paris was criminally wrong in arraigning itself upon the side of violence and encouraging the intolerance of the populace.

  56. When the outbreak began, the president of the Parlement of Toulouse hastily dispatched a messenger to Montluc entreating him to come to their assistance.

  57. The guilt of Vassy still hung over the duke, for he had not yet been absolved either by the Court of Parlement or by the peers of France.

  58. The Parlement of Paris protested not only against the infringement of its privileges, but against conversion by persecution, and the same feelings existed at Rouen, where several members had to be excluded for heretical opinions.

  59. From the middle of the 14th century onward, the parlement had taken upon itself the right of hearing appeals from persons sentenced by the Inquisition.

  60. Item, the day of oier and termyner shall holde at Norwich on Moneday next comyng, and by that cause my Lord of Oxenford shall be disported of his comyng to the Parlement for to attende to the Sessions of oier, &c.

  61. Acte of Resumpcion in the last Parlement before this,[231.

  62. And All Myghty God kepe yow; and, be His grace, I schall be with yowe son aftyr the Parlement es endyd.

  63. Parlement in their best aray; why, no man can telle.

  64. Right trusti and right welbelovid, we grete yo hertily well, prayng you specially that ye will make you redy to awayte upon us at Yippiswich toward the Parlement the viij.

  65. But there is no real likeness between the two revolutions, the French parlement being no more representative of the people than the Inns of Court were in England.

  66. His father was procureur to the parlement of Paris, and destined him to the profession of the law.

  67. In the yeare of our Lord 1296, the king held his parlement at Berwike: and there he tooke homage singularlie of diuerse of the lords & nobles of Scotland.

  68. In speaking of parlement lawe, I haue in the chapiter precedent said somewhat of this high and most honorable court.

  69. But bicause the nobilitie and commons of this realme would not by parlement consent vnto it, their king being within age, the same release procéeded not, albeit the Scots ceased not their practises with this quéene and earle.

  70. Vpon the last daie therfore of the parlement or session, the prince commeth in person againe into the house, in his robes as at the first.


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