Letters-patent were also given to the lieutenant-criminal of the Châtelet and certain other judges chosen by the cardinal of Lorraine to judge without appeal.
A case occurring at the Paris Châtelet in 1390 has much interest as affording us an insight into the details of procedure, and as illustrating the efficacy of torture in securing conviction.
To these the officers of the Châtelet promised on oath to submit.
Assessors were associated with the provost, and together they formed a tribunal, which was afterwards known as the Châtelet (Fig.
The Grand Châtelet was one of the most ancient prisons of Paris, and probably the one which held the greatest number of prisoners.
The Châtelet was also a centre of action and of strength, which counteracted in certain cases parliamentary opposition.
His jurisdiction extended to several courts, which were presided over by eight deputies or judges appointed by him, and who were created officers of the Châtelet by Louis XII.
In addition to the courts of the counts and bailiffs established in certain of the large towns, aldermanic or magisterial courts existed, which rather resembled the Châtelet of Paris.
Châtelet of Paris, which took part with the people, gave proof of extraordinary energy and of great force of character.
The provost and two councillors of the Parliament sat upon it, and Philip de Valois, adopting its decisions, prescribed fresh statutes, which were naturally framed in such a way as to show the distrust in which the Châtelet was then held.
In this cellar nearly all the slang songs were born, and it is from the dungeon of the Great Châtelet of Paris that comes the melancholy chorus of Montgomery's galley: Timaloumisaine, timoulamison.
Listen to this: There was at the Châtelet of Paris a large long cellar, which was eight feet below the level of the Seine.
Madame du Châtelet was dead; and his position at Versailles, in spite of the friendship of Madame de Pompadour, had become almost as impossible as he had pretended it to have been in 1743.
But the Louvre was close at hand, almost within earshot on one side, the Châtelet was scarcely farther off on the other; and both swarmed with soldiers and the armed scourings of the streets.
A few however were abroad: and of these some, who chanced to be threading the network of streets between the Châtelet and the Louvre, heard behind them the footsteps of one in great haste.
Here our old friends the dancing dogs of the Champs Elysées, and the familiar charlatan of the Place du Châtelet with his chariot and barrel-organ, transported us from Ashantee to Paris.
One of the judges of the Châtelet was brought to the palace--there were secret investigations, and I know not what.
Meanwhile at the prison doors of the Châtelet the three poor wretches of prisoners were forced into a cart by gendarmes in the sight of the multitude.
He was promptly at the Châtelet at the time of their brief and summary trial, and procuring a calèche, sped Versaillesward to retail the news to the Noailles household.
Deposition of Maillard (Criminal Inquiry of the Châtelet concerning the events of October 5th and 6th).
Criminal proceedings at the Châtelet on the events of October 5th and 6th.
Thus mounted the pair rode to the Châtelet to see the queen pass.
From the Châtelet Station of the Métropolitain we strike northwards along the Rue St. Denis, passing R.
It spanned the river from the end of the Rue St. Denis and the arch of the Grand Châtelet to the Tour de l'Horloge of the Palais de Justice.
Voltaire lived with Madame du Châtelet in the Hôtel Lambert (No.
Boileau was wont to sleep in his clothes on a camp bed in the Châtelet to be in readiness at any hour, and often St. Louis would be seen sitting beside the provost on the judgment seat, watching over the administration of justice.
Châtelet was to have gone this week, but I believe waits to hear how his behaviour is taken.
Châtelet sidled up to the two former, spoke to them and passed behind them, but on a sudden lifted up his leg and thrust himself in between the two Imperials.
Monsieur du Châtelet and the Prince de Masserano came in.
Choiseul may thank in some measure for his fall; for I believe while Châtelet was here, he drew the Spaniards into the attack of Falkland's Island.
However, the Russian's coach being first, he astonished everybody by proposing to set Monsieur du Châtelet down at his own house.
At least I have not three distinctions, like Châtelet when he affronted Czernichew, but neither in his private nor public capacity.
But in 1553 we find him imprisoned in the Châtelet for sodomy and in danger of his life, so that he thought of starving himself to death.
The clitoris is more usually small than large; women with a large clitoris (as Parent-Duchâtelet long since remarked) seem rarely to be of masculine type.
Châtelet In studying the vast numbers of salons of the eighteenth century, three types are discernible, each of which was prominent and in full sway throughout the century up to the Revolution.
Châtelet who encouraged him, sympathized with him, and appreciated his mobile humor as well as his talent.
Châtelet was the one great femme savante of that century.
The Lamoureux Concerts have not had as stable a dwelling-place as the Châtelet Concerts.
It is to the honour of the Châtelet and the Pasdeloup concerts to have created it.
It is also at the Châtelet that the keenest musical passion has been preserved in the public, even to this day.
At length a bailiff from the Châtelet clad in black, mounted on a black horse, who had been stationed beside the ladder since the beginning of the execution, extended his ebony wand towards the hour-glass.
Renauld Chateau, guardian of the seals of the Châtelet of Paris, at your service.
I was haled to the Châtelet and clapped in prison, where I was very hardly handled, and only escaped by paying a heavy sum of money.
This Messire Florimont Lecocq was Sergeant at the Châtelet Prison and a partisan of the English.
He lived in a quiet château at Cirey, industrious and independent, though he looked toward the Marquise du Châtelet for that admiration which a literary man craves.
In 1750, Madame du Châtelet being dead, Voltaire accepted the invitation which had been sent to him from Berlin by the King of Prussia.
See also letters of Madame du Châtelet of about the same date.
Madame du Châtelet is as charmed as I, and will praise you to much better purpose.
Parent-Duchâtelet wrote that he had seen them come to the hospital with their eyes out of their heads, faces bleeding, and bodies torn by the blows of their drunken lovers, but as soon as they were healed they went back to them.
In the morning at the Châtelet Concert the performance of my Tempest took place.
Tchaikovsky made two public appearances in the double capacity of composer and conductor; both these were at the Châtelet concerts.
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