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	Urban Legends Reference Pages: First Knight
		The custom of someone other than the husband being the first to engage in sexual intercourse with a bride after the wedding (and thus being the one to relieve her of her virginity) goes back several thousand years and is tied to the concept of God as the source of all life.
		Though nobleman still referred to the droit de seigneur as a "duty," they also reserved the right to waive their performance of it (presumably when they found a bride to be considerably less than attractive in physical appearance).
		Alain Boureau argues that the droit du seigneur was largely a myth perpetuated for political reasons (e.g., monarchists in the late Middle Ages cited the droit du seigneur to rally public opinion against local lords; partisans of the French Revolution used it as proof of the corruption and depravity of the Ancien Régime).
	www.snopes.com /weddings/customs/droit.asp (1217 words)

	Droit de seigneur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Droit du seigneur (also droit de seigneur), French for the lord's right, and jus primae noctis, Latin for law (or right) of the first night, are the terms now popularly used to describe the purported legal right of the lord of an estate to deflower its virgins.
		Droit du seigneur is often interpreted today as a synonym for jus primae noctis, although it originally referred to a number of other rights as well, including hunting, taxation, and farming.
		The droit de seigneur, whereby local landowners claimed the right to sleep with every newly-wed bride in their domain, is often misinterpreted as an instance of feudal tyranny.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Droit_de_seigneur (1269 words)

	Droit de seigneur: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The right of the first night --also known as jus primae noctis (law of the first night), and droit du seigneur (the lord's right) -- was a plot device in the movie Braveheart by Mel Gibson.
		In the 16th century Boece[?] refers to the decree of the Scottish king Evenus III that "the lord of the ground sal have the maidinhead of all virginis dwelling on the same." Legend has it that Saint Margaret procured the replacement of jus primae noctis with a bridal tax[?].
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	www.encyclopedian.com /dr/Droit-de-seigneur.html (262 words)

	Droit de seigneur: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The jus primae noctis meaning 'law (or right) of the first night,' and droit du seigneur meaning 'the lord's right', EHandler: no quick summary.
		(the droit de seigneur is referred to when Duke Felmet (then monarch of the Ramtop Ramtops quick summary:
		(and thus assumes that a droit de seignur is a kind of large, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dr/droit_de_seigneur.htm (1376 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		I encountered the French phrase "droit du seigneur" in a column by Maureen Dowd.
		The phrase droit du seigneur literally means 'the right of the lord', but is used specifically to refer to the supposed right of a feudal lord to have sexual intercourse with the bride of a vassal on their wedding night.
		Droit du seigneur is also used in transferred senses, referring to the ability of a man in a position of power to have sex with women (Ms Dowd's sense), or even more generally of any right exercised by a powerful man. I find "maladroit du seigneur" a pretty funny pun, I must say.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19981012 (322 words)

	User talk:Boborok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you're going to put {{NPOV}} on an article, as you did at Droit de seigneur, you need to explain why you inserted the tag on the talk page (as the template itself says).
		I've removed the tag for the moment, since there's no reason given for its inclusion and I don't see anything that I consider to be NPOV in there.
		You asked why I reverted your edit at Droit de seigneur; I've posted the explanation at its Talk page.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Boborok (958 words)

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	Histoire. Mythe du féodal droit de cuissage, jambage. Interdiction trois premières nuits. Tire-vesse
		Appelé droit du seigneur, de jambage, de prélibation, de markette ou de culage, le droit de cuissage fut présenté comme ayant existé par certains auteurs du XVIII
		siècle, les usages les plus ridicules et les plus barbares étaient alors établis, et que les seigneurs avaient imaginé le droit de cuissage consistant à coucher la première nuit avec les nouvelles mariées leurs vassales roturières...
		siècle, le clergé « dut renoncer à exercer en nature son droit de markette » après avoir mis une amende sur les adultères, et « jura que personne du moins, pas même le mari, n'aurait cette première nuit qu'on lui enlevait...
	www.magazine-histoire.com /numeros/224.htm (236 words)

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		The peasants of the Persen valley \par in the Trentino entered a protest against certain new exactions on the \par part of their lord; they complained of forced labour and of the \par "fruictiones primae noctis de sponsalibus." This was apparently in the \par twelfth century.
		Droit de seigneur is mentioned in the \par Book of Esther-the story read on the Jewish Holiday of Purim.
		Modern historical thinking suggests that droit de seigneur \par >didn't exist; it was a myth imposed on those times by later historians with \par >a bad attitude.
	www.florilegium.org /files/LIFE-STEPS/p-customs-msg.rtf (2523 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		This incident invokes the old feudal droit du seigneur – an “alleged custom of medieval times by which the feudal lord might have sexual intercourse with the bride of a vassal on the wedding-night, before she cohabited with her husband” (OED).
		Though a custom long out of date by the 18th century, the droit du seigneur was a popular feature of 18th- and 19th-century fiction, and, in A Tale of Two Cities, helps to emphasize the injustices of feudalism – a state of political affairs finally overturned by the Revolution in France.
		The National Palace, previously the Palais des Tuileries, is on the other side of Paris from the Saint Antoine wineshop: The Tuileries, between the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde) and the Louvre, is in the western part of Paris, just north of the Seine; Saint Antoine is in the east.
	dickens.stanford.edu /archive/tale/issue14_gloss2.html (1553 words)

	Humanist - Jus Primae Noctis
		The theme of the Droit du Seigneur was used in innumerable plays and operas from the early 1600's to the present day.
		The cruelty of nobility, the hopelessness of the serfs were themes deliberately exploited to arouse the indignation of the audiences, and to excite the masses against the ruling class.
		The Droit du Seigneur was in fact a tax that a Serf had to pay when his daughter married outside the estate.
	www.petalk.com /humanist/jpn.html (3215 words)

	JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS - LoveToKnow Article on JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		, or DEOIT DU SEIGNEUR, a custom alleged to have existed in medieval Europe, giving the overlorc a right to the virginity of his vassals' daughters on their wedding-night.
		This religious abstention, added to the undoubted act that the feudal lord extorted fines on the marriages of his rassals and their children, doubtless gave rise to the belief that he jus was once an established custom.
		The whole subject has been exhaustively treated by Louis Veuillot n Le Droit du seigneur au moyen age (1854).
	90.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JU/JUS_PRIMAE_NOCTIS.htm (170 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did medieval lords have "right of the first night" with the local brides?
		Granted women were supposed to be the weaker sex and all, but they knew how to fillet fish.
		The right of the first night--also known as jus primae noctis (law of the first night), droit du seigneur (the lord's right), etc.--has been the subject of locker-room humor and a fair amount of scholarly debate for centuries.
		If you believe the popular tales, the droit du seigneur prevailed throughout much of Europe for centuries.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_181.html (695 words)

	Meditation 285 - Billy James Hargis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After officiating at the marriage of two students from his college (heterosexual marriage, of course,) he convinced them it would be a good thing if he went with them on their honeymoon.
		Then he practiced the ancient droit de seigneur with the bride.
		And then he practiced the ancient droit de seigneur with the groom.
	www.apatheticagnostic.com /articles/meds/med15/med285.html (465 words)

	Sex/droit du seigneur
		A recent query to the Medtextl listserv brought the following cite from Peter Binkley, which might help shed some light on the matter:
		"See Alain Boureau, _Le droit de cuissage: La fabrication d'un mythe, XIIIe-XXe siecle_ (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995).
		It received a bravura review in the TLS, Oct. 6 1995, p.44, by Peter Linehan, who wrote: "[Boureau] is exigent in his taxonomy.
	tafkac.org /sex/droit_du_seigneur.html (339 words)

	Abilene Opera Association: 'Figaro' Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Susanna, a maid in the household, dislikes the location of the room: it is too near that of the Count and Countess, and the Count has been making advances.
		She tells Figaro that the Count, tired of outside philandering, plans to exercise the ancient droit du seigneur - the right of a noble to take the bridegroom's place on the wedding night of his servants.
		THe Countess persuades the Count to sit beside her on the thrones from which they are to welcome the bridal couples.
	www.texnews.com /abileneopera/figarosynopsis.html (2213 words)

	Screen Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		THE WAR LORD - The painstakingly accurate historical drama "The War Lord" is predicated on the old practice of le droit du seigneur.
		Despite the impressive scope of the battle scenes, "The War Lord" based on a stage play by Leslie Stevens, is essentially an intimate human drama (in contrast, look what "droit du seigneur" sparked in the 1995 epic "Braveheart").
		The surehanded direction of Franklyn Schaffner and the credible performances of Heston and the rest of the cast are brilliantly complemented by Jerome Morross' Stravinsky-like musical score.
	www.screenarchives.com /title_detail.cfm?ID=3953 (813 words)

	Droit Du Seigneur
		His father was going to invoke Droit du Seigneur on his spouse.
		He had so many privileges that 'Droit du Seigneur' is actually rather vague, since all it means is right of the lord.
		"'Droit du Seigneur' was the right of the lord of the manor to have the wedding night with the bride of any of his vassals who were marrying.
	www.draconis-carpe-noctem.com /droit.html (9598 words)

	JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or ... - Online Information article about JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or ...
		Church required from the faithful continence on the wedding-night, and this may havebeen, and there is evidence that it was, known as Droit du Seigneur, or " See also:
		Veuillot in Le Droit du seigneur au moyen See also:
		JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or DROIT DU SEIGNEUR
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/JUS_PRIMAE_NOCTIS_or_DROIT_DU_S.html (421 words)

	Maureen Dowd: 'Because we can' is no reason to act \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		His "could" reflects a selfish "Who's gonna stop me?" power move, stemming from a droit du seigneur attitude, as opposed to "should," signifying obligation, or "must," indicating compulsion.
		In his memoirs, Clinton complains about Republican droit du seigneur, writing that impeachment was driven neither by "morality" nor "the rule of law" but, as Newt Gingrich said: "Because we can."
		The Clinton alpha instinct on Monica, fueled by a heady cocktail of testosterone and opportunism, was the same one that led President Bush into his march of folly with Iraq.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/27034 (766 words)

	History News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		RE: Droit de seigneur is not a perk of office (#12880)
		RE: Droit de seigneur is not a perk of office (#12887)
		RE: Droit de seigneur is not a perk of office (#29154)
	hnn.us /readcomment.php?id=12880 (13719 words)

	droit - Wiktionary
		J'ai le droit de dormir - I have the right to sleep
		Il est étudiant en droit - He is a law student
		un angle de trois droits - an angle of 270 degrees
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/droit (81 words)

	ipedia.com: List of Latin phrases Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Often the implication is that it isn't the case of necessity (de jure) or that it is supposed not to be the case; e.g.
		"The Shogun was the de facto ruler of Japan."
		A mangled fragment from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum ("On the Ends (Limits) of Good and Evil," 45 BC), used as typographer's filler to show fonts (a.k.a greeked text).
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_latin_phrases.html (4474 words)

	The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History:
		By this time local settler legend had it that in earlier years Arawarra had committed "many dark deeds of blood", leading war parties against gangs of cedar cutters in the district, ambushing, killing and feasting upon the members of one gang.
		Yet what is interesting is the representation of grave- robbing as possibly holding the key to managing those vanquished from the soil to the margins or beyond the boundaries of colonial society.
		Remains also served as the means for pastoralists to exercise a droit de seigneur of sorts, by allowing guests with a taste for science to remove Aboriginal remains from their property.
	www.jcu.edu.au /aff/history/articles/turnbull.htm (9285 words)

	EU Referendum - View topic - Something else on droit de suite
		Something rather odd happened while we were all waiting for the Patent Office to finalize the Draft Statutory Instrument and for the DTI to lay it before Parliament (which they did too late for the regulations to come into force on January 1, as they were supposed to).
		As long as it's not 'Droit de Seigneur'.
		Tony Blair might be in a hurry to get it reinstated befor he has to leave office.
	www.eureferendum.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=989 (274 words)

	myownspecial website
		Historical Note: the droit du seigneur (literally, "right of the lord") was a custom whereby the lord of the manor-- the seigneur-- claimed the right to deflower a soon-to-be-wed virgin on or before the wedding night.
		"In previous centuries, Clark, the seigneur cared not how the serfs felt, and he showed no compunction for his deeds with the betrothed of another.
		He simply took what he felt was his to deflower." Lex withdrew the riding crop and took a step back, his interest piqued when he saw how Clark's eyes followed the crop.
	www.boomspeed.com /mosself/thestableboy.html (3426 words)

	biology - List of Latin phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In some contexts de facto refers to the "way things really are" rather than what is "officially" presented as the fact.
		E.g., "Although the emperor held the title and trappings of head of state, the Shogun was the de facto ruler of Japan."
		"About the matter" or "about reality" — in logic, de dicto statements (about the truth of a proposition) are distinguished from de re statements (about the properties of a thing itself).
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/List_of_Latin_phrases (6366 words)

	The Independent (London, England): The Weasel: My kingdom for a cake; With a crown on my head, I'm tempted to exercise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Weasel: My kingdom for a cake; With a crown on my head, I'm tempted to exercise my `droit de seigneur' with the females at the table.(Features)
		It was a galette des rois purchased by Mrs W from a French patisserie.
		Across the Channel, this flat, round cake is eaten throughout January to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:127484261&refid=holomed_1 (244 words)

	My Family: Droit de Seigneur Ben - TV.com
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