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	parlement. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		At first the duties of the parlement were strictly judicial, but it gradually gained considerable political power through its function of registering all royal edicts and letters patent before they became law.
		Originally there was only the Parlement of Paris, which grew out of the feudal Curia Regis [king’s court] and may be said to have had a separate existence from the reign of Louis IX (1226–70).
		In 1787 and 1788 the Parlement of Paris and the provincial parlements successfully opposed the fiscal reforms proposed by Archbishop Loménie de Brienne to save France from bankruptcy; they claimed that only the three estates of the kingdom gathered in the States-General possessed the authority to pass on new taxes.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pa/parlemen.html (577 words)

	PARLEMENT - LoveToKnow Article on PARLEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The judicial competence of the Parlement developed and became more clearly defined; the system of appeals came into existence, and appeals against the~ judgments of- the baillis and seneschals were brought before it; cases concerning the royal towns, the bonnes villes, were also decided by it.
		The royal baillis had to attend the Parlement, in order to answer for their judgments, and at an early date was fixed the order of the different bailliages, in which the cases coming from them were heard.
		By this means the parlements took part in the administration, except in matters the cognisance of which was attributed to another supreme court as that of taxation was to the cours des aides, They could also, within the same limits, address injunctions (injonctions) to officials and individuals.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PARLEMENT.htm (3599 words)

	Parlement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally, there was only the Parlement of Paris, born out of the king's council (Latin: Curia Regis) in 1307, and located inside the medieval royal palace, now the Paris Hall of Justice.
		However, the Parlement of Paris had the largest jurisdiction of all the parlements, covering the major part of northern and central France, and was simply known as "the Parlement".
		Some, especially the Parlement de Paris, gradually acquired the habit of refusing to register legislation with which they disagreed until the king held a lit de justice or sent a lettre de cachet to force them to act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parlement (607 words)

	Parlement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There were several local or regional parlements and they could issue regulatory decrees for the application of royal edicts or of customary practices; they could also refuse to register laws that they judged contrary to fundamental law or simply as being untimely.
		Some, especially the Parlement de Paris, gradually acquired the habit of refusing to register legislation with which they disagreed until the king held a or sent a lettre de cachet to force them to act.
		Furthermore, the parlements could pass arrêts de réglement, which were laws that applied within their jurisdiction.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Parlement (495 words)

	Parlement -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The British Parliament, often referred to as the “Mother of Parliaments,”; consists of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.
		Although their apologists claimed in 1732 that the parlements had emerged from the ancient judicium Francorum of the Frankish tribes, they had in fact been created by the king in the Middle Ages to dispense justice in his name.
		In 1770 the conflict with the parlements had reached such a level that Louis XV was finally goaded into a burst of absolutist energy.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9058520 (621 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: The Hundred Years War In The High Court Of Parlement
		So say the plaintiffs, who, as they are paupers and miserable persons without the means to live or to prosecute their rights against the aforesaid, are led to such beggary that they may die of hunger and helplessness in the said prison unless we provide needed remedy.
		The appellant says he is a good and loyal merchant, accustomed to bring foodstuffs to Paris; and that some time ago while he and other merchants were coming to Paris, they were encountered and taken as prisoners and hostages by our enemies of the castle of Passy-en-Valois.
		In January 1428, the Parlement finally declared that Henry was not obligated to Fastolf, since he had been involved only as a guarantor for Denis, who since that time had found other guarantors.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/100yrs.html (2814 words)

	Parlement of Foules - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Parlement of Foules" (also known as the "Parliament of Fowls," "Parlement of Briddes," "Assembly of Fowls" or "Assemble of Foules") is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?-1400) made up by approximately 700 lines.
		The poem is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza and is interesting as it is one of the first references to the idea that St.
		The first time is in the Introduction (Prologue) to The Legend of Good Women: "He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame,/ And eke the Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse,/ And the Parlement of Foules, as I gesse" (Larry D. Benson, The Riverside Chaucer, 1987: 600).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parlement_of_Foules (465 words)

	Encyclopedia: Parlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
		Categories: French history The Parlement of France is bicameral, and consists of the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) and the Senate (Sénat).
		The Walloon Parliament, or Walloon Regional Council (French: Parlement wallon or Conseil régional wallon), is the parliament of Wallonia, the southern region of Belgium.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Parlement (1530 words)

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		Parlements also acted as courts of appeal, and a nobleman could only be tried in a parlement (by his peers).
		A parlement of Ealdormere is not a substitute for a Moot of Ealdormere as an expression of the vox populi.
		Should a gentleman or gentlewoman desire same in a parlement, they may be called by the herald to the bar, and there they may request and make their payment to the Sergeant at Arms; though in ordinary court they may approach the presence.
	www.florilegium.org /files/STORIES/Parlement-art.text (3480 words)

	Recent Acquisitions-18th Century Judicial
		Defense of the Parlement of Besançon in response to its suppression by the crown.
		DIJON — ARRÊT du Parlement séant à Dijon, du 8 janvier 1761.
		One of the most important remonstrances of the Parlement de Paris, concerning the sovereignty of the King and the authority of the parlement in the French state all in relation to the controversy surrounding the Bull ‘Unigenitus’.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/frnit/judicial/itemized.html (10003 words)

	Fronde -> The Fronde of the Parlement on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fronde -> The Fronde of the Parlement on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		This period (1648-49) began when the parlement rejected a new plan for raising money, proposed by Anne of Austria, mother of and regent for Louis XIV, and her adviser, Cardinal Mazarin.
		A compromise peace was arranged between the parlement and the regent at Rueil in Mar., 1649.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/fronde_thefrondeoftheparlement.asp (881 words)

	Politics and the Parlement of Paris under Louis XV, 1754—1774 - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Politics in eighteenth-century France was dominated by the relationship between the crown and the magistrates of the Parlement of Paris.
		The Parlement provided a traditional check upon the King’s authority, but after 1750 it entered a period of prolonged confrontation with the government of Louis XV.
		In order to explain why the crown and the Parlement drifted into conflict, this study re-examines the conduct of government under Louis XV, the role of the magistrates, and the structure of judicial politics in eighteenth-century France.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521473497&print=y (283 words)

	Recent Acquisitions-18th Century Judicial
		Ordonnance du Roy Jean I et selon d’autre Jean II donné au besoin en décembre 1363 contenant des règlemens tant pour les seules causes qui doivent âtre portés au parlement, que pour le jugement des procès.
		Arrest du Parlement de Bretagne, rendu sur les remontrances et conclusions de Monsieur l’Avocat Général du Roi, qui supprime un manuscrit intitulé "Troisièmes Remontrances du Parlement de Paris, du 8 février 1766." (pp.
		Arrest du Parlement de Bretagne, rendu sur les remontrances et conclusions de Monsieur l’Avocat Général du Roi, qui supprime un imprimé ayant pour titre: "Très-humbles, très-respectueuses, et itératives représentations, datés à Rouen en Parlement, le 24 février 1766." (pp.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/frnit/judicial/appenA.html (1792 words)

	Bienvenue sur le site du PCF
		ENJEUX D’AUJOURD’HUI ET DE Le Parlement de la Communauté française rencontre les mouvements de jeunesse.
		Le prix de journalisme du Parlement de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles a pour objet de couronner un travail mettant en valeur le patrimoine culturel de la Communauté, illustrant sa sensibilité particulière ou contribuant à une meilleure connaissance de la Communauté, de ses institutions et des matières de sa compétence.
		Le prix littéraire du Parlement de la Communauté française sera réservé à l'essai ou la biographie de qualité littéraire.
	www.pcf.be (534 words)

	Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution : Chapter 1.3.VIII. Lomenie's Death-throes
		On the morrow, which is the 3rd of May, 1788, an astonished Parlement sits convoked; listens speechless to the speech of D'Espremenil, unfolding the infinite misdeed.
		The assembled Parlement declares that these its two martyrs cannot be given up, to any sublunary authority; moreover that the 'session is permanent,' admitting of no adjournment, till pursuit of them has been relinquished.
		The highways are covered with Grand Deputations of Parlements, proceeding to Versailles, to have their registers expunged by the King's hand; or returning home, to cover a new page with a new resolution still more audacious.' (Weber, i.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.2/bookid.106/sec.20 (2810 words)

	Remonstrances of Parlement of Paris against Turgot's Six Edicts (1776) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The desire to ease the burdens placed on the people is too praiseworthy in a sovereign and conforms so much with the wishes of your parlement, that the latter could never conceive of dissuading Your Majesty from such a noble and legitimate goal.
		Your parlement understood that the edict substituting a universal, indefinite, and perpetual land tax for the corvée, under the guise of the apparent relief it offers the people, could at first glance have seemed a beneficent act inspired by love of humanity.
		But at the same time, Sire, your parlement was sure that a more careful examination of the edict would reveal to Your Majesty that it represents a policy burdensome even for those whom you wish to help, and contrary to the sense of justice that motivates you.
	history.furman.edu /~benson/hst11/docs/ParlementvsTurgot.htm (1481 words)

	Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Parlement of the Thre Ages and Wynnere and Wastoure are the last two items in British Library Additional MS 31042, a miscellany of religious histories, verse romances, poems by John Lydgate, carols, and other devotional or ethical poems, all compiled by Robert Thornton, probably around 1450
		Thornton's version of Wynnere and Wastoure is unique; The Parlement of the Thre Ages, however, also exists in an incomplete and later, inferior version, which now is British Library Additional MS 33994 but formerly was part of the library of Sir James Ware, who died in 1666.
		In The Parlement of the Thre Ages, religious and moral standards are invoked to highlight the degradation of social abuses in a somewhat different way; consequently, problems of interpretation have taken a different form.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/ginintro.htm (3809 words)

	Stefan's Florilegium
		The parlement of Ealdormere is not intended to be summoned at
		parlement, or in the front rows of extraordinary court.
		parlement they are the keepers of the bar of the house.
	www.florilegium.org /files/STORIES/Parlement-art.html (2858 words)

	Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The refusal of the Parlement of Paris to approve the government's revenue measures in the spring of 1648 set off the first phase, the Fronde of the Parlement.
		The Parlement sought to put a constitutional limit on the monarchy by establishing its power to discuss and modify royal decrees.
		A blockade of Paris was not enough to force the surrender of the Parlement, which was supported by Parisian leaders and by some of the high nobility.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9035493 (817 words)

	Accueil — PJCDF (Le Parlement des Jeunes de La Chaux-de-Fonds) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Accueil — PJCDF (Le Parlement des Jeunes de La Chaux-de-Fonds)
		Le site du Parlement des Jeunes de la Chaux-de-Fonds
		Un nouveau site internet pour l'association de jeux de rôles et de stratégies.
	www.pjcdf.ch (127 words)

	DGLF - Rapport au Parlement 2002 - L'Union européenne
		Le règlement intérieur du Parlement européen contient plusieurs dispositions linguistiques assurant la présence des langues officielles, notamment pour la publicité des décisions du Bureau, de la conférence des présidents et des questeurs, les déclarations écrites des députés, la communication de la position commune du Conseil, les amendements mis aux voix, les pétitions.
		L'article 102, en particulier, dispose que " tous les documents du Parlement doivent être rédigés dans les langues officielles " et que les "interventions dans une des langues officielles sont interprétées simultanément dans chacune des autres langues officielles et dans toute autre langue que le Bureau estime nécessaire ".
		Le Parlement européen a opté en faveur d'un système de langues pivots comprenant le français
	www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/dglf/rapport/2002/Deuxieme_partie_I.htm (3615 words)

	The Sun King - January 1663: Parlement News
		Président Feu de Lance was appointed to the top job in a near-unanimous vote, and at once pledged to review the legal system to try to stamp out crime in the city.
		He was also commended by His Majesty the King, who decided to honour the new head of the city’s Parlement with a knighthood to ensure that he toes the line of Royal policy.
		His intention to stand proved immensely popular, with a number of his colleagues in Parlement, including Président Tapadre, at once offering their support, for which Feu and his mistress May had campaigned hard.
	www.users.dircon.co.uk /~redessa/sun-king/turns/1663/jan/parlnews.htm (280 words)

	Master of the Parlement de Paris (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Only two paintings in the world are recognized as having been painted by the anonymous artist known as the Master of the Parlement de Paris.
		This painter was named after the large fifteenth-century altarpiece made for the Parlement de Paris, now in the Louvre museum.
		Nothing at all is known about the artist's life, but, based on his artistic technique, scholars believe that he was trained in the style of Rogier van der Weyden.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a1164-1.html (136 words)

	Parlement et gouvernement : Portail Québec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Le Parlement du Québec se compose du lieutenant-gouverneur et de l'Assemblée nationale.
		« Le Parlement fait les lois et le gouvernement les applique.
		Le Parlement les étudie, les adopte ou les rejette; il surveille aussi l'application des lois par le gouvernement et exerce un contrôle sur l'ensemble des activités gouvernementales.
	www.gouv.qc.ca /wps/portal/pgs/commun/gouv?lang%3Dfr (630 words)

	Le Parlement du Musique (Instrumental Ensemble) - Short History
		Formed in 1990 by Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique is an ensemble that varies in size according to the requirements of the repertoire : it comprises an orchestra and chorus, as well as soloists.
		Le Parlement de Musique has presented many revivals, which have been highly acclaimed by the critics.
		By agreement with the City of Strasbourg and the French Ministry of Culture, and with the assistance of the Alsace Region, it is now based in Strasbourg.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/LPDM.htm (335 words)

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