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Rabelais, François:
caricature of judges, 155 ;
on family, 128 ;
on marriage, 125 , 126
Radouant, René:
on character of Du Vair, 354 , 406 ;
on duc de Mayenne, 376 -77;
on Harlay, 344 , 345 , 436 ;
on Mary Stuart's funeral oration, 353 ;
on rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;
on speeches of Du Vair, 382 , 383
Ramus, Pierre, 110 ;
influence on Loisel, 29 , 31 ;
influence on Pasquier, 27
Rancher, Antoine, 447 , 449 n
Ranke, 325
Rapin, Nicolas, 428 n
Ravaillac, François, 456
Le rayonnement (cultural leadership), 163
Real Presence. See Eucharist
Rebours, Claude, 107
Rebuffi, 64 , 322
Recherches de la France (Pasquier), 27 , 65 , 86 , 108 , 227 ;
manuscripts of, 119
Recidivism, 205
Reformation:
"magisterial," 203 -4;
parlementaire opposition to, 229 n;
"radical," 204 n
Reformers, religious. See Religious reformers
Regalia, ceremonial, 72 , 76
Regicide, 145
Registers:
comparison with Mémoires-Journaux , 483 ;
of Conciergerie, 313 ;
function of, 484
Registers of Parlement, 2 -3, 180 , 218 , 220 , 288 ;
Protestants in, 3 ;
purge of, 434 ;
secret, 269 , 311
Regnard, Florent, 268 n;
on commission to Catherine de Médicis, 268 n, 269
Religion:
choice in, 165 -66;
as cohesive force, 163 -64;
controversial literature of, 103 -4;
effect on political alignment, 419 ;
exploitation of, 142 ;
importance to monarchy, 63 -64, 417 -18;
L'Estoile on, 158 , 167 -68;
ostentation in, 165 , 244 , 271 -72, 277 ;
robin attitude toward, 157 -58, 165 -66;
role in state, 426
Religious dissenters:
challenges to Gallican tradition, 172 -75, 185 ;
François I's toleration of, 182 , 205 ;
parlementaire response to, 175 -77, 187 ;
robin attitude toward, 381
Religious reformers, 172 -75;
exile of, 193 , 205 ;
sympathy of gens du robe for, 262 ;
Valois attitude toward, 189 -92
Religious services, Protestant:
Bèze's performance of, 258 ;
gens du roi at, 266 ;
at Paris, 232 , 251 , 261 , 270 ;
at Pré-aux-Clercs, 233 , 254 , 255 ;
prohibition of, 268
Religious toleration:
early advocates of, 477 ;
edicts of, 30 , 176 , 326 ;
failure of, 249 -58;
by François I, 182 , 205 ;
Henri IV's policy of, 450 ;
humanists' acceptance of, 469 ;
L'Hôpital on, 310 ;
in Paris, 228 ;
Parlement's treatment of, 19 -20, 194 -96, 210 -11, 230 , 233 -34, 477 ;
policy of Catherine de Médicis, 23 , 175 , 240 , 249 -58, 275 -76, 287 , 300 , 309 , 326 , 450 ;
resistance of Estates to, 325 n;
threat to French constitution, 477 , 481 .
See also Edict of Nantes (1598-99)
Religious unrest, 261 ;
L'Hôpital on, 251 -52;
in Paris, 268 -73, 276 , 431 ;
parlementaire protest of, 250 , 251
Remission of crimes, 148
Renaudot, Théophraste, 133
Residences, of parlementaires, 149 -50
Resignatio in favorem , 8 , 41 , 82 , 300
Retz, duchesse de, 122
Reuchlin, Johannes, 15 , 113
Reulos, Michel, 31 , 65 -66;
on praticiens , 154
Rice, Eugene, 95 -96
Richelieu, cardinal, 77 , 112
Richet, Denis, 9 ;
on elites, 340 , 419 ;
on family, 121 ;
on French Reformed Church, 228 ;
on matrimony, 54 ;
on Pierre (I) Séguier, 21 ;
on robins , 41 -42, 51
Ripault, Christophe, 447 , 448 n
Rivault de Fleurance, David, 129
Robertet, Florimond, 9 , 43
Robins :
access to benefices, 52 ;
antagonism with nobility, 130 n;
attitude toward law and order, 134 ;
attitude toward Paris League, 341 ;
autonomy among, 56 -57, 121 ;
avenues of advancement for, 44 -48;
banishment by Henri IV, 439 ;
book collections of, 99 -104;
bourgeois, 461 ;
Burgundian, 461 ;
in circle of Pasquier, 33 ;
class distinctions among, 128 -29;
clients of, 122 ;
at Council of Trent, 299 ;
desire
Robins (continued )
for nobility, 50 , 51 , 128 -29, 144 ;
education of, 92 ;
exemption from taxation, 52 ;
goals of, 50 ;
historians among, 29 ;
in Holy League, 324 ;
immigrants to Paris, 41 -45;
intellectual pursuits of, 95 , 473 ;
interest in history, 112 ;
jusqu'au-boutistes among, 340 ;
long-range planning of, 51 , 53 ;
Parisian, 40 -42, 151 ;
in Paris League, 461 , 480 ;
politique , 464 ;
predominance in Parlement, 8 ;
pride in heredity, 153 ;
privileges of, 52 -53;
Protestant, 219 , 261 -62;
religious attitudes of, 157 -58, 165 -66, 167 , 175 , 244 -48, 381 , 461 , 464 , 480 ;
response to religious dissent, 175 -77;
satirization of, 155 ;
spiritual life of, 165 ;
upward mobility of, 54 , 133 -34;
value of royal service for, 49 -50;
vices attributed to, 156 .
See also Elites, robins; Gens de robe ; Lawyers
Robiquet, Paul, 483
Roches, Catherine des, 127
Roger, François, 200
Rogier family, 44
Rohan, Pierre de (maréchal de Gié), 13
Rohan family, 258
Roillart, Louis, 203
Roman law:
Bartholomé Faye's work on, 25 ;
in book collections, 100 ;
contrast with customary law, 65 ;
increase in authority of, 24 ;
influence on French law, 106 -7;
Le Caron's work on, 32 ;
parlementaire interest in, 105 .
See also Customary law; Fundamental law
Roman senate, 66 , 105 , 157
Rome, sack of (1527), 201
Romier, Lucien, 250 , 265 , 428 ;
on civil wars, 273 -74
Ronsard, Pierre de, 56 , 108 ;
epitaph for Marie Brachet, 126
Rose, Guillaume (bishop of Senlis), 394 , 404 ;
in Satyre Ménippée , 427
Rostaing, Tristan de, 265
Rouen' crime in, 144 , 145 ;
heresy cases in, 208 , 211 ;
siege of, 283 .
See also Parlement of Rouen
Rouillard, Jacques, 268
Roussel, Gerard, 200 , 203
Royal domain. Charles VII's expansion of, 43 ;
inalienability of, 61 , 63 , 79 ;
Parlement's role in, 68
Roye, Éléonore (princess de Condé), 284
Ruellé, Pierre, 447 , 448 n
Ruzé, Jean, 270
Ruzé, Pierre, 254
Ruzé family, 44 ;
humanist education of, 96