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- Title
The Parlement of Paris and the Ordinances of Blois (1579).
- Authors
DAUBRESSE, SYLVIE
- Abstract
The Parlement of Paris invested considerable time and energy in detailed consideration of the substantial reforming legislation that had emerged from the first Estates General of Blois (1576–77) and which formed the eventual Ordinances of Blois (1579). Using the registers of the Parlement of Paris and hitherto unexamined copies of associated remonstrances, this article assesses why they did so, focusing on the issues of ecclesiastical and judicial reform. By placing their intervention in the context of the response from the Parisian magistrates to the holding of other Estates General in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, it concludes that the sovereign court sought as much to uphold its exalted view of the ‘law of the realm’ and its own conception of reform, as to assert its independence from the Estates General or become a decisive intermediary in the dialogue between the crown and its subjects.
- Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY of Paris, France; LEGISLATIVE bills; REFORMS; CABINET system; JUSTICES of the peace
- Publication
French History, 2009, Vol 23, Issue 4, p446
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crp072