The Parlement of Paris. J. H. Shennan

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Russell Major
Keyword(s):  
Parlement Of Paris

The Parlement of Paris, 1774-1789. Bailey Stone

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-376
Author(s):  
William Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Parlement Of Paris

II. The Political Role of the Parlement of Paris, 1715–23

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
J. H. Shennan
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Parlement Of Paris

The most recent biographer of Montesquieu has written:…the similarity between the ideas of the former president a tnortier and those of the parlements is sometimes striking.…The king, they admit, is the legislator and the fount of justice. The parlements, however, are the repositories of his supreme juris-diction. To remove it from them is to offend the laws of the state and to overthrow the ancient legal structure of the kingdom.…This tradition of the parlements inspired and was inspired by the political doctrine of Montesquieu; and when the President writes of the monarchy of his own day…as being the best form of government that men have been able to imagine, it is monarchy supported by this tradition which he has in mind.

Book III. The Parlement of Paris.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Carlyle
Keyword(s):  
Parlement Of Paris

Chapter I. Dishonoured Bills. While the unspeakable confusion is every where weltering within, and through so many cracks in the surface sulphur-smoke is issuing, the question arises: Through what crevice will the main Explosion carry itself? Through which of the old craters or chimneys;...

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