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1. Parliaments and political crisis in France under Louis XV: The Besancon affair, 1757-1761.

Author

Swann, Julian

Subjects
*LEGISLATIVE bodies -- History, *EIGHTEENTH century, FRENCH politics & government, REIGN of Louis XV, France, 1715-1774
Abstract

Discusses the causes and consequences of the conflicts between France's Louis XV and the parliaments during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Origins of the dispute in Franche-Comte; Reaction of the government and the Parisian magistrates.

Published
1994
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2. The Politics of the Parlement of Paris in 1525.

Author

Stocker, Christopher W.

Subjects
FRENCH politics & government, LEGISLATIVE bodies -- History, SIXTEENTH century
Abstract

Discusses the interests and ambitions of the Parlement of Paris in France in 1525. Magistrates' efforts to preserve a state of equilibrium within the government; Tempering of the king's authority by the wisdom and counsel of the Parlement so that it would never be exercised arbitrarily; Procedures of royal legislation; Questions of the right of remonstrance by the court.

Published
1973
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