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Updated: May 23, 2025
The lord Fitzwater answered herevnto, that he was not present in the parlement house, when iudgement was giuen against them, and all the lords bare witnesse thereof.
Upon the thursdaie, the commons came and rehearsed all the errors of the last parlement holden in the one and twentith yeare of king Richard, & namelie in certeine fiue of them. 1 First, that where the king that now is, was readie to arraigne an appeale against the duke of Norfolke, he dooing what perteined to his dutie in that behalfe, was yet banished afterwards without anie reasonable cause.
In the sixteenth, the most important are Louis d'Orléans' Expostulatio , a violent attack on Henri IV., and condemned by the Parlement of Paris; Archbishop Génébrard's De sacrarum electionum jure et necessitate ad Ecclesiæ Gallicanæ redintegrationem , condemned by the Parlement of Aix, and its author exiled.
Passing now to the eighteenth century, we find book-burning, then declining in England, in full vigour on the Continent. The most important book that so suffered was Rousseau's admirable treatise on education, entitled Émile , condemned by the Parlement of Paris to be torn and burnt at the foot of its great staircase. It was also burnt at Geneva.
There were amusing scenes when the boy-king, at the direction of Mazarin, gave orders in his shrill treble to the learned lawyers and grave old judges. Egged on by seeming popular sympathy and no doubt by the contemporaneous political revolution in England, the parlement of Paris at length defied the prime minister.
The refusal of the parlement to register the new taxes led to one of the old struggles between it and the king's ministers. A compromise was arranged in the autumn of 1787; the parlement agreed to register a great loan, and the king pledged himself to assemble the Estates General within five years.
By force of this act king Henrie thought himselfe firmelie set on a sure foundation, not néeding to feare any storme of aduerse fortune. had purposed a disappointment of their coniuration, and therefore no maruell though the issue of their labours were infortunat by their flattering hope. But now to make an end with this parlement.
Moreouer they demanded to haue the statute either reuoked or qualified, which had béene established by authoritie of parlement, in the second yeare of this kings reigne, against such as were reputed to be heretiks, or Lollards.
So critical was the situation that the court was forced to bend, and to postpone the humiliation of the Parlement to a more convenient season. The glorious issue of the campaigns of Condé against the Houses of Spain and Austria seemed to offer the desired opportunity.
The Notables, however, had no confidence in Calonne, and refused to ratify his programme of reform. Louis XVI then attempted to carry through some of the more pressing financial reforms in the usual way by sending them to the parlements to be registered. The parlement of Paris resolved, as usual, to make the king's ministry trouble and gain popularity for itself.
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