Robe against Sword: The Parlement of Paris and the French Aristocracy, 1774-1789

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bailey Stone
Keyword(s):  
1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-376
Author(s):  
William Doyle
Keyword(s):  

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

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
J. H. Shennan

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.


Author(s):  
Thomas Carlyle
Keyword(s):  

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;...


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document