Pamphlets on the Parlements in late 18th-century France, 1759-1789.

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Pamphlets on the Parlements in late 18th-century France, 1759-1789.

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Essays, open letters, decrees, letters patent, minutes of meetings, poems, satires, fictitious dialogues, and a political catechism by or about the Parlements, sovereign law courts which settled cases in each of the provinces of France and registered the laws. Topics include taxes, judicial reform, Catholicism in its political aspect, the Parlements in relation to the monarchy and to the Third Estate, finance minister Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the king's "lit de justice," and individual Parlements including those of Paris, Brittany, and Bordeaux.

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