The parlementshad regained their ancient rights in consequence of the parlement of Paris having, in 1715, set aside the will of Louis XIV.
But it was not long before the old struggle between the crown and parlements again broke out.
Finally, by the theory of the classes, which considered the various parlements of France as parts of one and the same body, they established among them a political union.
The parlements registered the Sanction and the effect was permanent in France.
From this period the parlements began the procedure which, after the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VII.
The parlementsthereupon condemned several private persons for obtaining bulls from Rome.
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.
Footnote 183: For a description of the punishment, see Bastard d'Estang, Les parlements de France.
For the nature of the penalty, see Bastard D'Estang, Les parlements de France, i.
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.
To these Charles IX assented and the Huguenots waived the matter of confirmation by provincial Parlements and the surrender of certain cautionary places for the time being.
Special parlements pronounced upon all law cases which arose between litigants of either group.
The Parlements part, we said above, was as good as played.
After a dull month, the Parlement, yielding and retaining, makes truce, as all Parlements must.
Alas, far from that: on the very threshold of the business, he proposes that the Clergy, the Noblesse, the very Parlements be subjected to taxes!
The Provincial Parlements look on, with intent eye, with breathless wishes, while their elder sister of Paris does battle: the whole Twelve are of one blood and temper; the victory of one is that of all.
The Basoche rejoices aloud, that the foe of Parlements is fallen; Nobility, Gentry, Commonalty have rejoiced; and rejoice.
At lowest, he can attack the symptom of it: these rebellious Parlements he can attack, and perhaps remove.
Parlements calling for it were 'escorted with blessings.
So many as eight Parlements get exiled: (Montgaillard, i.
The Parlements of Besancon and Aix ring, audible to all France, with the amours and destinies of a young Mirabeau.
The entire nation is rising in opposition to ungoverned and arbitrary will, and they have the Parlements at their head" (April, 1752).
Look at the tone of the remonstrances against the vingtième prepared by the Parlements and the Estates.
There were thirteen parlements and four provincial councils in France having sovereign jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases; the authority of the Parlement of Paris covered two-fifths of the kingdom.
This sounded to the government like revolution, and the Parlements were again abolished.
Sidenote: The Parlements] The parlements were judicial bodies [Footnote: There were thirteen in the seventeenth century.
But the Parlement of Paris, which together with the other Parlements had been restored early in the reign of Louis XVI, soon saw through the artifices of the suave minister, and positively refused to register further loans or taxes.
The quarrel grew so bitter that all the thirteen Parlements of France were suppressed (1771), and in their stead new royal courts were established.
The abolition of the Parlements raised a great cry of indignation; excited crowds assembled in Paris and other cities; and the soldiers refused to arrest the judges.
That King was false to every principle of government when he reinstated the Parlements suppressed by his grandfather.
Parlements a strong constitutional rule in the provinces.
But this reform, being made by the minister of a hated sovereign, only aided in exasperating public opinion, which was grateful to the parlements in that their remonstrances had not always been fruitless.
No one might meddle in political affairs, neither parlements nor states-general; still less had the public any right to judge the actions of the government.
The threat of Chretien Francois de Lamoignon, keeper of the seals, to imitate Maupeou, aroused public opinion and caused a fresh confederation of the parlements of the kingdom.
The general discontent was expressed by the parlementsin their attempt to establish a political supremacy amid universal confusion, and by the popular voice in pamphlets recalling by their violence those of the League.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parlements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
