This circumstance recalled to Madame Danglars the absence of a friend of the house, the procureur du roi Villefort, and she asked Monte-Cristo whether he knew where he was.
I am indirectly the cause of the absence of the procureur du roi," said the count, as if to apologize.
I resign my office, and desire the court to appoint my successor as procureur du roi," said Monsieur de Villefort, in a faint voice.
The procureur du roi arose amid the hushed silence of the court-room, and began to speak, throwing all the blame on Monsieur de Villefort rather than on Benedetto.
At this cry the procureur du roi arose, and showed his ghastly face to the crowd.
Unconsciously all eyes were turned to the ministerial box, as if hoping to encounter the pale, confused face of the all-powerful judge, who had himself been judged, but only the substitute of the procureur was seen.
There the procureur also arrived: and as soon as he discovered the absence of his former patron, who had by this time joined the army, he resumed his former designs, and endeavoured to carry Helen off.
The first persons whom he encountered in the auberge were Arnault, the procureur of Lourdes, and his son, the latter of whom instantly proffered to join the party, and aid with all his heart.
On following my father thither, I instantly recognised the person we had seen in the étude of the procureur at Lourdes.
The moment the breath was out of her body, the excellent procureur took me to the door of his house, and told me tenderly to get along for a graceless little vagabond, and none of his.
The first thing, however, that I perceived was the enormous head of the old procureur himself, looking through the sort of barred screen that surrounded his writing-table, like some strange beast in a menagerie.
This was to consist of the governor general, the bishop, or in default the highest ecclesiastic on the spot, the intendant when appointed, five councillors and a procureur du roi.
The haughty governor received them with insult and he imprisoned their spokesman, Migeon de Branssat, who as procureur fiscal was acting as judge in place of M.
Acting as procureur of the king, he demanded that d'Argenteuil should be declared guilty of the crime and condemned to have his head cut off, and, as he was absent, this should be done in effigy.
Eventually, however, theprocureur fiscal was freed and the court sittings continued.
In order to see that innkeepers did not substitute others, the procureur fiscal, or his substitute, accompanied by the clerk of the justices and two sergeants, went on a tour of inspection from time to time.
At these elections the judge was present as presiding officer, replacing the greffier, as mentioned in a previous chapter, and he was accompanied by the procureur fiscal and the greffier.
It was not sufficient to have been merely clerk to a procureur during the period and to have been registered at his office.
In order to be recognized as a qualified procureur it was necessary to have gone through one's "stage" in the Basoche, to have been entered by name for ten years on its register.
The Parquet connected with the Cour d'Appel consists of the Procureur general, seven Avocats generaux, and eleven Substituts of the Procureur general.
The arrival of the lieutenant of the short robe, who had finished disposing his men in the enclosure, the presence of the procureur general, who had been sent for, put an end to this disorder.
All these official services rendered to individuals must be with the consent of the Procureur de la Republique and the Prefet de Police, the Surete acting only under the orders of these two officials.
The Conseil Superieur determines, the three Chambres being reunited, upon the requisitions of the Procureur general; representing the government.
One of the most furious provokers of insurrection and murder was Hébert, a devoted Jacobin, substitute of the Procureur Syndic of the Community.
He had been created Procureur of the Commune, and had imposed on the wealthy citizens a tax, which was raised from six to thirty millions of livres.
A moment after, seeing a grenadier of the escort offer the Procureur de la Commune half a small loaf, Louis XVI.
When the time arrived for his speech he wore so confident an air that the Procureur rubbed his hands.
He glanced round the court, bowed to the judge, and turned to the Procureur with an air of extreme readiness.
I think it well to inform you that Monsieur Lemaire intends proceeding to extremes; that he has instructed theProcureur de la Republique, and that in all probability you will be arrested to-morrow or the next day.
The Procureur remarked that the theft was admitted by the defence, and at once Maitre Barraud demanded the production of the letter.
The Procureur de la Republique had appeared to her an ideal counsel-- shrewd-faced, energetic, keen.
The Procureur remarked: "The absence of a receipt.
France--and his friends a millionaire of Paris and theProcureur du Roi!
As Danglars finished, his features changed and became those of Villefort, while his Greek peasant's garb was transformed into the sombre habiliments of the Procureur du Roi.
Procureur du Roi himself went mad under such an accumulation of horrors!
On this day before they left they arrested, without any pretext, the Mayor and the Procureur de la République, and an officer grossly insulted them.
Guards were set over the Procureur during the night, and did their best to persuade him by remarks exchanged between them that his execution was imminent.
Monsieur Desfondrilles is still archaeological, but, in order to compass his own election, the procureur general Vinet took pains to have him appointed president of the Provins court.
The newly appointed procureur du roi made a requisition which necessitated fresh evidence.
Not submitted to your side," said the judge, severely, "but possibly to the procureur du roi.
She wrote to the Procureur du Roi, demanding an exhumation, with the belief, no doubt, that time would have effaced the poison.
These confessions, together with the information which had come to him from other investigations, served to increase the feeling of the Procureur that Boursier's death called for probing.
Her letter to the Procureur du Roi demanding an exhumation and justice against her slanderers was read.
The Procureur of Rennes, hearing of this confession, took the trouble to search out the woman named in it.
The Procureur du Roi had to go over the accusation in detail, making the most of Mme Lacoste's intimacy with the ill-reputed old fellow.
VII The speech of the Procureur du Roi was another resume of the acte d'accusation, with consideration of that part of the evidence which suited him best.
Counsel for the prosecution, as it were, was the Procureur du Roi, M.
After a night visit from the Procureurhe was retired into private life.
Mme Boursier at first denied the adulterous intimacy with Kostolo, but the evidence in the hands of the Procureur was too much for her.
The Procureur du Roi maintained that this letter showed the invalid had already been taken with vomiting before it was considered necessary to call in a doctor.
Brought before the Procureur du Roi, he impudently confessed that he had been, and still was, Mme Boursier's lover.
To him she announced her intention of surrendering herself to the Procureur du Roi.
The Procureur du Roi remarked here that reliance on the secret remedies was the `system' of the defence.
The Lieutenant-Criminel and the Procureur du Roi took Aymar into the cellar, furnishing him with a rod of the first wood that came to hand.
According to the Procureur du Roi the rod did not move till Aymar reached the very spot where the crime had been committed.
The mayor is laid up after it, and the procureur of the commune died between nine and ten o'clock in the morning.
I hastened home, at once, to obtain the necessary papers, deposited them with the procureurof M.
They were servants of the procureur de la République, who had brought them from the French colony of Martinique.
By crafty devices Fouquet was induced to sell his office of procureur general, thus losing the protection of its privileges, and he paid the price of it into the treasury.
Pierre de Laurencel, the procureur general's substitute, sent the Queen a list of the names of the members of the Grand Chamber, with the means made use of by the friends of the Cardinal to gain their votes during the trial.
The procureur general's information was severe on the Cardinal.
La Chalotais maintained that the trial was illegal; being procureur general he claimed the right to be judged by the parliament of Rennes, or failing this by the parliament of Bordeaux, according to the custom of the province.
He was for 60 years procureurgeneral at the parliament of Brittany.
His strictures on the procureur de la Republique on this occasion being declared libellous he was suspended for six months and in 1890 he again incurred suspension for an attack on the attorney-general, Quesnay de Beaurepaire.
According to the Procureur du Roi, the rod did not move till Aymar reached the very spot where the crime had been committed.
Procureur au Chatelet before the Revolution, Conseiller d'Etat after the 18th brumaire, Prefect of Police during the Hundred Days.
He was Avocat General a la Cour de Cassation in 1842, then Procureur General a la Cour Royale de Paris.
The British commandant assumed the place of the procureur du roi, although there were one or two half-hearted efforts made to introduce the Common Law.
Villefort, now procureur du roi, had a daughter by his first wife, for he had married a second time.
Resistance or remonstrance was useless, and Dantès suffered himself to be taken to Marseilles, where he was examined by the deputyprocureur du roi, M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procureur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
