The defence of the rights of the peerage in France before the Revolution: the decisive years, 1756–66

• John Rogister ^[1]
  1. [1] Durham University

     Durham University

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Parliaments, estates & representation = Parlements, états & représentation, ISSN-e 1947-248X, ISSN 0260-6755, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2000, págs. 111-147
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article John Rogister traces the impact of the political crises of the middle years of Louis XV's reign on the rights of the princes and peers of France. Because those conflicts carried the prospect of judicial proceedings being taken against ecclesiastical or temporal peers, the question was raised of their right to be judged by their fellow peers. Was the Court of Peers embedded in the Parlement of Paris, or was it a separate court that could only be summoned by the King? In the defence of their rights, the peers were eventually divided among themselves and separated from the princes but also came to hold regular assemblies and to establish a standing committee and a secretariat to look after their interests.