INDEX
A
Absolutism:
checks on, 63 -65, 78 ;
Du Vair on, 344 , 345 ;
of French monarchy, 59 , 60 , 418 ;
L'Hôpital's view of, 312 ;
parlementaire views on, 327 , 469 ;
public opinion on, 472
Acarie, Jean, 279
Acharnés , 183 ;
division with moderates, 208 ;
hard-core, 218 ;
Lizet's leadership of, 194 , 476
Act of Supremacy (England, 1534), 204
Adultery, punishment for, 145 , 236
Aerssen, François d', 443 -44, 445 , 449
L'affaire Brisson (1591), 389 -93, 407 ;
Du Vair on, 408 ;
punishment for, 439
L'affaire de la rue St-Jacques (1557), 184 , 232 ;
arrests in, 254
L'affaire des placards (1534), 16 , 173 , 181 , 191 ;
effect on parlementaires, 475 ;
François I in, 204
Aides (tax), exemption from, 52
Aix, Parlement of, 211 , 213
Alava, Don Francis, 302 , 303
Alberti, Leon-Battista, 134
Albigensians, 237 , 253 ;
crusade, 162
Alciato, Andrea, 27 , 99
Alençon, duc d'. See Franéois, duc d'Alençon
Almanacs, 102 , 142
Alter, J. V., 155 , 158
Amboise, cardinal d', 9 , 15
Amboise, François d', poetry of, 107
Amiens:
elite of, 130 ;
parlementaires from, 43
Andelot, François d', 232
Anglicanism, 173
Anjorrant, Claude, 48 , 218 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280
Anjou, Henri d'. See Henri III (king of France)
Anjou, heresy in, 211
Annates, restoration of, 178
Anne de Beaujeu:
entry into Paris, 76 ;
regency of, 43 , 76
Anne de Bretagne, 9 , 45
Antiquity, parlementaire interest in, 105 , 106
Antoine de Bourbon (king of Navarre):
affiliation with ultras, 264 ;
command of royal armies, 279 ;
and Conspiracy of Amboise, 243 ;
death of, 275 ;
expulsion of Protestants, 281 ;
expulsion of Triumvirs, 277 ;
as lieutenant général of France, 250 , 278 ;
protection of Protestants, 232 , 239 ;
religious views of, 249 , 264 , 275 ;
role in Edict of July, 292
L'appel comme d'abus , 90 , 199 , 346 ;
in Berquin case, 202 ;
use against papacy, 459
Arande, Michel d', 190
Arbalaste family, 43
Archives Nationales, inventories of private libraries, 98
Ariès, Philippe, 122 , 150
Aristotle, 340 , 437
Armada, defeat of, 366 -67
Armitage, Isabella, 484
Arnauld, Antoine, 470 ;
career of, 35 -36;
La Justice aux pieds du Roy , 36
Arrêt des luthériens , 211
Arrêts , 3 ;
collections of, 99 , 153 ;
of Parlement of Paris, 65 , 211 , 213 , 215
Assassination, Pasquier on, 373
Asses, Claude de, 211
Athanasian Creed, 245
Aubigné, Agrippa d', 118 -19
Aubray, Claude d', 420 -21, 422 ;
in Satyre Ménippée , 427 , 428 -29
Aubry (curé of St-André), 396 , 399 , 404 ;
assassination plots by, 414 ;
attack on wives of présidents, 424 ;
on Spanish troops, 405 ;
on succession of Henri IV, 410
Auger, Edmond, 347
Augustine, Saint, 171
Augustus (emperor of Rome), 66 , 448
Auneau, victory of, 351 , 352 , 354
Aurelius, Marcus, 114
Autos-da-fé: of 1546, 212 ;
of 1549, 215
Autun, merchants of, 130
Auvergnat faction, 43 , 45
Ayrault, Pierre, 33 , 372 ;
De la puissance paternelle , 122
B
Baïf, Jean-Antoine de, 107
Baillages , jurisdiction of, 224
Baillet, René, 13 , 284 ;
career of, 16 -17;
and Edict of January, 267 ;
embassy to Condé, 276 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 237 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 279 ;
and profession of faith, 291 ;
religious views of, 238 n;
on royal commissions, 48
Baillet, Thibault: death of, 177 , 178 , 181 ;
defense of constitutionalism, 406 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 164 ;
defense of tradition, 13 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49 ;
leadership of mainstream, 195 ;
opposition to Concordat of Bologna, 77 , 178 ;
on parlementaire ideals, 134 ;
as président, 12 ;
work on customary law, 48
Baillet family, 17
Baillon, Anne de, 39
Bailly, 402
Banishment: billets of, 421 n, 432 n;
by Henri IV, 438 -39;
of heretics, 216 , 217
Barbançon family, 258
Barbaro, Marc'Antonio, 284 , 294 n;
on Pacification of Amboise, 286 ;
on ultra party, 293
Barberini, Maffeo, 455 , 456
Barbiche, Bernard, 3
Barjot, Jean, 218
Barnavi, Élie, 341 , 464 ;
on l'affaire Brisson, 391 , 392 ;
on bourgeoisie, 339 , 461 ;
on Bussy-Leclerc, 340 ;
on Estates of the League, 403 ;
on Henri IV's banishments, 438 ;
on Henri IV's succession, 382 ;
on jusqu'au-boutistes , 419 ;
on ligueurs , 340 , 462 ;
on Sixteen, 386 , 389
Barrière, Pierre, 414
Basoche , marriage among, 54
Bastille:
parlementaires in, 376 ;
surrender to Henri IV, 433 ;
takeover by League, 363
Baston, 438
Baude, Henri, "Testament de la Merle Barbeau, ", 156
Baudouin, François, 27 ;
students of, 96
Baumgartner, Frederic, 419
Beame, Edmond, 327 -28
Béarnais, Jeanne. See Jeanne d'Albret (consort of Antoine de Bourbon)
Beaune, Jacques de (sieur de Samblançay), 45 ;
trial of, 10
Beaune, merchants of, 130
Beaune, Renaud de (archbishop of Bourges):
patronage of Le Caron, 32 ;
support of Henri IV, 353 n
Beaune, René (archbishop of Sens), 152
Beaune family:
humanist education of, 96 ;
immigration to Paris, 44
Béda, Noël: opposition to heresy, 193 , 216
Begat, Jean, 287
Beggars:
increase in, 342 ;
punishment of, 133
Belin, François Faudoas (comte de), 399 , 420 , 421 ;
banishment of, 422 , 423
Bellanger, Jacques de, 447
Belleforest, François de, 107
Bellièvre, Pomponne de, 34 n;
career of, 33 -34, 36 ;
dismissal by Henri III, 367 ;
and Trent decrees, 451 , 452 , 453
Belon, Françoise de, 27 , 124
Benefices:
access of robins to, 52 ;
of Antoine Duprat, 178 , 180 , 195 , 200 ;
under Concordat of Bologna, 178 ;
Council of Trent on, 298 ;
Diefendorf on, 47 ;
of Guise faction, 280 ;
Henri II's sale of, 224 ;
of laymen, 47 ;
plurality of, 346 ;
possession by magistrates, 47 -48;
under Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, 178 , 179 ;
reform of, 200
Beneficio Christi , 152
Benson, Edward, 120 n, 125
Bergeron, Nicolas, 29
Bernard, Auguste, 402
Béroald, Matthieu, 171
Béroald family, 38
Berquin, Louis de, 14 , 244 ;
arrest of, 194 , 199 ;
execution of, 203 , 208 , 475 ;
François's protection of, 281 , 191 , 194 , 199 -200;
heresy trial of, 180 -81, 193 ;
possession of banned books, 194 ;
release of, 202
Berquin case (1522-23), 176 , 177 , 280 -81, 199 -200;
effect on Parlement, 461 , 475 ;
Lizet in, 193 , 194 , 215 ;
papal commission on, 202 -3
Berruyer (lawyer), book collection of, 99
Bertrand, Jean, 28 ;
as garde des sceaux , 221 ;
as président, 46 , 183 , 184 , 221 , 222 ;
venality of, 215
Bérulle, Cardinal, 480
Béthune, Maximillien de (duc de Sully), 451
Béthune, Philippe de, 454
Bettinson, Christopher:
on Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 327 ;
on politiques , 326 , 403
Bèze, Théodore de, 234 ;
performance of Protestant services, 258 ;
on Trent decrees, 302 .
Works: Droit des magistrats , 62 , 63 ;
Vindiciae contra tyrannos , 111
Bibliothèque de la société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, 3 , 201 n
Billets of banishment: of duc de Mayenne, 421 n;
of Henri IV, 432 n
Birague family, 44
Biron, Charles de Gontaut (sieur de), 141 -42, 359
Bishops, French:
on Bull of Gregory XIV, 397 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 460 ;
at Fontainebleau council, 242 ;
loss of sees, 301 ;
royal nomination of, 178
Bitton, Davis, 50
Blanchard, François, 13 , 468 ;
on Charles Guillart, 14 ;
on Christophe de Harlay, 22 ;
on Christophe de Thou, 23 ;
on François Olivier, 18 ;
on Pierre (I) Séguier, 21 ;
on René Baillet, 16 -17
Blasphemy, 172 , 217 ;
edicts against, 213 ;
parlementaire commission on, 196 -99;
punishment for, 236 . See also Heresy
Bloch, Marc, 163
Blois, heresy in, 213
Bodin, Jean:
on absolutism, 312 ;
on crime, 144 ;
on indivisibility of sovereignty, 121 ;
political theory of, 60 , 78 , 93 , 464 .
Works: Methodus , 313 ;
Republic , 78 , 148
Bohier, Nicholas, 45
Bohier family, 45
Bologna, law school of, 98
Bon catholique françois , ideal of, 411 n, 421 -22, 466
Bonete, Robert, 214 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280 ;
in trial of parlementaires, 237
Boniface VIII (pope), 91 , 161
Bonvalet family, 43
Books, banned, 180 , 204 ;
Berquin's possession of, 194 ;
burning of, 194 , 211 , 282 , 287 ;
by Henri IV, 433 ;
parlementaire ruling on, 200 ;
by Sorbonne, 182 , 189 , 194 , 209
Books, collection by robins , 99 , 103 n
Bordeaux: Parlement of, 8 , 30 ;
Protestants in, 219
Bordier, Henri, 201 n, 202 n
Bouchard, Jean, 137 ;
anti-royalism of, 193
Boucher, Jacqueline, 313 , 314
Boucher (preacher), 388 -89, 396 ;
on Semmoneux , 400
Boucherat, Edmond, 303
Boulard, Pierre, 267 n
Bourbon, Antoine de. See Antoine de Bourbon (king of Navarre)
Bourbon, cardinal de. See Charles, cardinal de Bourbon
Bourbon, house of, 428
Bourdeille, Pierre de (sieur de Brantôme), 18 , 127 , 467
Bourdin, Gilles, 107 , 235 , 250 , 282 -83;
affiliation with ultras, 277 ;
and Edict of January, 269 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 , 305 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280 ;
protest of religious unrest, 250
Bourgeois, Guillaume, 203
Bourgeoisie:
hierarchy within, 339 , 461 -62;
parlementaire origins in, 461
Bourgeoisie, Parisian:
aid to crown, 9 ;
aid to League, 341 ;
in Mayenniste faction, 340
Bourgeon, Jean-Louis, 318 -19, 321 ;
on L'Estoile, 484
Bourgoing, Guillaume, 99 , 211 ;
in Chambre Ardente, 218
Boutin, Déode, 268 n
Bouwsma, William J., 167 , 456 ;
on role of lawyers, 474 -75
Brachet, Marie, 126
Brachet, Nicolas, 198
Brachet family, 44
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille (sieur de), 18 , 127 , 467
Bribart, François, 212
Briçonnet, Guillaume, 44 ;
correspondence with Marguerite d'Angoulême, 192 ;
François's protection of, 44 , 191 ;
humanism of, 95 ;
reforms of, 172 , 189 , 193
Briçonnet, Jean, 44
Briçonnet, Pierre, 44 , 96
Briçonnet family:
humanist education of, 96 ;
immigration to Paris, 44 ;
marriage connections of, 17 ;
royal patronage of, 8
Brigandage, 145
Brigard, Jean, 389
Brissac (governor of Paris), 422 , 429 ;
in Day of Barricades, 358 , 359 ;
Sixteen's appeal to, 430
Brissard, Jacques (II), 446 -47
Brisson, Barnabé:
arrest of, 389 ;
assassination of, 137 , 188 , 320 , 332 , 390 -91, 438 , 481 ;
avoidance of arrest, 375 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 361 ;
and Pasquier, 365 ;
as président of Parlement of the League, 376 , 388 ;
relations with Sixteen, 391 ;
in Trent decree debate, 346
Brittany, Parlement of, 16
Broadsides, printed, 101 ;
pornographic, 104
Brulart, Canon, 259 , 269
Brulart, Noël, 137 ;
anti-heresy activities of, 210 -11;
in Chambre Ardente, 218 ;
on commission to Catherine de Médicis, 269 ;
dismissal by Henri III, 367 ;
as procureur général , 230
Brulart, Pierre, 203
Brulart family, 45
Bryant, Lawrence, 75 -76
Budé, Guillaume, 56 , 195 ;
in Berquin case, 203 ;
Christian humanism of, 191 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49 ;
Institution du Prince , 110 ;
on Parlement, 87 ;
representation in book collections, 99 , 100 ;
studies of antiquity, 106 ;
Valois sponsorship of, 190
Burdelot, Jean, 255
Burdelot family, 44
Bureau de Ville:
age of marriage in, 54 ;
André Guillart in, 17 ;
careers within, 57 ;
de Thou on, 24 -25;
Du Drac family in, 21 ;
family alliances in, 55 ;
in First Civil War, 283 ;
merchants in, 46 ;
militia of, 278 , 313 , 420 -21;
moderates in, 391 ;
overlap with Parlement, 8 n;
parlementaires among, 42 ;
takeover by ligueurs , 363 , 389 ;
in Tumult of St-Médard, 259 ;
work with poor, 132 -33
Bureau Général des Pauvres, 132
Burguière, André, 121 n
Burgundians, 136 ;
in Parlement of Paris, 42
Burgundy:
heresy cases in, 217 ;
House of, 7 ;
under Pacification of Amboise, 286 -87;
robins of, 461 ;
surrender to Charles V, 199
Bussy-le-Clerc (Jean Leclerc), 40 , 340 ;
arrest of Brisson, 389 ;
arrest of parlementaires, 375 -76, 462 ;
banishment of, 392 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 359 -60;
recruitment of Nicolas Poulain, 356 ;
takeover of Bastille, 363
C
Cajetan, Cardinal, 387
Calvin, John, 182 ;
and Antoine de Bourbon, 249 ;
burning of works, 211 ;
and conversion of nobility, 239 ;
at Geneva, 204 ;
and Guillaume Farel, 173 , 193 ;
Institutes of the Christian Religion , 172 , 210 ;
legal education of, 473 ;
on Nicodemites, 166 -67;
on reformed churches, 214
Calvinism, 25 , 108 , 109 ;
effect of Edict of July on, 256 ;
growth in France, 228 ;
under Henri II, 214 ;
regional, 261 ;
in Scotland, 227
Capet, Hugh, 406 n
Cappel, Jacques, 72 , 480 ;
defense of Parlement, 74 -75
Carolingian family, 162
Castelli, Giambattista (bishop of Rimini), 346 , 347 , 349
Castres, Protestant assemblies in, 262
Catherine de Médicis:
advisers of, 242 , 243 , 250 ;
aid to André Guillart, 313 ;
aid to duc de Nevers, 341 ;
ban on preaching, 308 ;
convocation of assembly at St-Germain, 262 -63;
convocation of pourparler de Paris , 255 -56;
court of, 126 -27;
in Day of the Barricades, 359 , 362 n;
death of, 278 ;
and Diane de Poitiers, 238 ;
and
duc de Guise, 363 ;
ecclesiastical reform proposals of, 299 -30;
edict of April 19 (1561), 251 -54;
factions in court of, 84 , 186 , 250 , 275 ;
and Fontainebleau council, 242 , 307 ;
marriage to Henri II, 205 ;
negotiations with Condè, 271 , 277 -78, 283 ;
opposition to Guise faction, 242 ;
and Pacification of Amboise, 286 ;
parlementaire commission to, 267 -68, 269 ;
patronage of André Guillart, 18 ;
patronage of Du Vair family, 37 ;
patronage of L'Hôpital, 240 ;
patronage of Louis Le Caron, 32 ;
patronage of Paul de Foix, 245 ;
patronage of René Baillet, 16 ;
on Protestant right of assembly, 258 -59;
Protestants serving, 232 ;
and publication of Edict of January, 267 ;
regency of, 176 , 223 , 243 -44;
relations with Parlement, 176 , 223 , 244 , 277 , 289 ;
relations with Philip II, 302 -3;
religious toleration policy of, 23 , 175 , 240 , 249 -58, 275 -76, 287 , 300 , 309 , 326 ;
service of Italians to, 43 -44, 322 ;
tour de France , 307 -8
Catholic Church:
challenges to tradition of, 172 -75;
influence on French culture, 162 -64;
primitive, 165 , 170 , 230 , 247 ;
role in French nationalism, 162 ;
role of lawyers in, 474
Catholic Church, Gallican:
administrative autonomy of, 67 , 88 ;
challenges to tradition of, 172 -75;
effect of Council of Trent on, 183 , 184 , 222 , 228 , 299 , 300 -301, 304 , 369 ;
response to Counter-Reformation, 346 -52;
threat of League to, 175 . See also Gallicanism
Catholicity, law of, 62
Celibacy, 124 ;
Lutheran attacks on, 189 ;
royal dispensation from, 81
Ceremonies, of ancien regime, 52 ;
paraphernalia of, 72 ;
processions, 75 -76
Châlons: merchants of, 130 .
See also Parlement of Châlons
Chambon, Eustache, 252 , 265 , 267 n;
in negotiations with Condé, 280
Chambon, Jacquelot, 265
Chambre Ardente, 214 -19;
constitutionality of, 183 , 211 ;
establishment of, 19 , 49 , 182 , 214 -15;
Lizet's role in, 194 , 479 ;
members of, 211 , 218 ;
parlementaire opposition to, 221 -22;
reaction to, 219 -22;
termination of, 177 , 222 , 225 ;
torture in, 216 , 217
Chambre de Justice (Guyenne), 30
Chambre des Comptes, 241 , 345 ;
marriage ties in, 120 ;
Pasquier in, 27 ;
reinstatement by Henri IV, 435 ;
support of Henri IV, 400
Chambre des Luthériens, 221
Chambre des Monnaies, 28
Chambre des Requêtes, François I's additions to, 41
Chambres des Enquêtes:
clerics in, 81 ;
creation of, 10 ;
François I's additions to, 41 ;
protest to Henri III, 209 ;
in succession debates, 407 -9
Chambres mi-parties , 118 , 260 n, 324 ;
Jacques II Cappel in, 480
Champagne, parlementaires from, 42
Chantonnay, Perrenot de, 254 , 255 n;
on Jeanne d'Albret, 256 ;
recall to Spain, 302 -3;
on religious unrest, 270
Charity, prohibitions against, 133
Charlemagne, 162 , 306
Charles, cardinal de Bourbon, 231 -32, 270 ;
in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;
declaration as king, 386 ;
and Henri IV, 395 -96;
and Pacification of Amboise, 285 ;
support of Henri III's edicts, 345
Charles, cardinal de Lorraine, 227 ;
at Council of Trent, 299 ;
and Diane de Poitiers, 220 ;
on heresy, 213 ;
leadership of Guise faction, 231 ;
patronage of Christophe de Thou, 23 ;
patronage of L'Hôpital, 301 ;
pressure on Parlement, 230 ;
role in Edict of July, 292 , 293 ;
in Satyre Ménippée , 428 ;
on Trent decrees, 301
Charles V (Holy Roman emperor):
abdication of, 226 ;
capture of Burgundy, 199 ;
capture of Pope Clement, 201 ;
and François I, 10 , 17 , 92 , 182 , 205 ;
war with Henri II, 223
Charles VI (king of France), 75
Charles VII (king of France), expansion of royal domain, 43
Charles VIII (king of France):
entry into Paris, 76 ;
Parlement under, 8
Charles IX (king of France):
conflict with Henri III, 321 ;
conflict with Parlement, 318 -20;
coronation of, 255 ;
and Council of Trent, 301 ;
and Edict of January, 266 ;
edicts of pacification, 32 ;
entry into Paris, 76 ;
fiscal edicts of, 342 n;
majority struggle of, 23 n, 87 , 243 n, 294 n, 295 -98, 300 , 311 ;
and Massacre of St. Bartrolo-
Charles IX (continued )
mew, 317 , 320 ;
minority of, 84 -85, 243 , 249 ;
tutors of, 251 , 259 ;
visit to Parlement, 294 -95
Charles de Bourbon (constable of France):
in Sack of Rome, 201 ;
Thibault Baillet's opposition to, 77
Charlet, Étienne, 255 , 290
Charron, Pierre, 111
Chartier, Matthieu, 38 , 137 , 392 ;
as "unreliable," 290
Chartres, Henri IV's siege of, 389
Chasseneuz, Barthélemy, 64 , 99
Châtelet, procureurs of, 342 -43
Châtillon, Odet Coligny (cardinal de). See Coligny, Odet (cardinal de Châtillon)
Châtillon faction, 18 , 231 , 274
Chevalier, Nicolas, 218
Cheverny, Philippe Hurault de, 56 , 344 ;
dismissal of, 367 ;
on Henri III, 372
Children, parlementaire attitudes toward, 122
Choppin, René, 33
Chrétien, Florent, 428 n
Church, French. See Catholic Church, Gallican
Church, William F., 60 , 61 , 64 ;
on monarchy, 66 ;
on role of law, 94
Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
admiration for, 110 , 111 , 471
Civil War, First, 184 , 314 ;
Bureau de Ville in, 283 ;
division of parlementaires during, 288 ;
in Midi, 283 ;
military events of, 282 ;
outbreak of, 226 ;
peace negotiations for, 284 .
See also Pacification of Amboise
———, Second: Condé in, 313
———, Third: Huguenot strength in, 315 , 320 ;
leadership of, 315 ;
Odet de Coligny in, 231 n, 315
———, Fourth, 321
———, Fifth, 323 ;
capture of towns in, 324
Civil Wars, politiques during, 328 .
See also Wars of Religion
Clark, Henry, 472
Class: effect on political alignment, 419 ;
importance in robin society, 129 ;
in Paris League, 340 ;
role in religious differences, 228 , 262
Classical literature:
book collections of, 99 -100;
in history of Gaillard, 113 ;
in L'Estoile's library, 103 n;
revival of, 95 , 473
Clemency, of parlementaires, 147 -48, 217
Clément, Jacques, 380
Clement VII (pope):
capture by Charles V, 200 ;
and marriage of Catherine de Médicis, 205
Clement VIII (pope):
and absolution of Henri IV, 414 -15, 441 -43, 451 ;
promulgation of Trent decrees, 451 , 454
Clerics: humanism of, 95 ;
lay jurisdiction over, 460 ;
libraries of, 99 ;
marriage of, 299 ;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 350 , 351 ;
in Parlement, 15 , 35 , 41 , 47 -48, 57 , 80 -81.
See also Curés, Parisian; Preachers
Clientage:
modification of, 274 ;
of parlementaires, 121 , 229 , 462 ;
stereotypes of, 23 n
Clutin, Henri de (sieur d'Oysel), 301
Clutin, Pierre, 197
Cocquelay, Lazare, 446 , 448 , 449 n
Coeur, Jacques, 44
Cognac, heresy in, 217 , 219
Coin collections, 102
Coligny, Gaspard de (Admiral), 232 ;
assassination of, 317 ;
conversion of, 250 ;
at Fontainebleau council, 242 ;
at pourparler de Paris , 256 ;
in Third Civil War, 315
Coligny, Odet (cardinal de Châtillon), 231 , 255 , 292 ;
conversion of, 250 -51;
death of, 316 ;
at Fontainebleau council, 242 ;
mission to England, 316 n;
in Third Civil War, 231 n, 315
College of Cardinals, liberal faction of, 182 , 183 , 205 , 210
Collèges , 96 , 97
Colloquy of Marburg (1529), 204
Colloquy of Poissy (1561), 257 , 276 , 293
Commolet, 404
Commynes, Philippe de, 43 , 113
Conciergerie (Paris):
detainment in, 148 ;
heretics in, 217 , 364 ;
registers of prisoners, 313
Concordat of Bologna (1516), 10 ;
benefices under, 178 ;
copies of, 99 ;
ecclesiastical office under, 47 ;
effect on Gallicanism, 89 ;
Guillart's role in, 14 ;
Louise de Savoie's opposition to, 72 ;
parlementaire opposition to, 12 , 20 n, 67 , 90 , 137 , 164 , 176 , 177 -80, 195 , 319 , 476 -77;
and Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, 178 ;
registration of, 177 , 178 , 179 , 477 ;
Seyssel's role in, 15
Condé, Éléonore Roye (princess de), 284
Condé, Henri de. See Henri de Condé
Condé, Louis (prince de), 255 ;
in Conseil Privé, 250 ;
and Conspiracy of Amboise, 275 , 476 ;
and conversion of nobility, 239 ;
followers m Picardy, 274 ;
leadership of Protestants, 249 , 250 ;
negotiations with Triumvirate, 279 -80;
negotiations with Catherine de Médicis, 271 , 277 -78, 283 ;
Parisian supporters of, 270 ;
relations with Parlement, 276 , 278 -82, 284 ;
release of, 276 ;
in Second Civil War, 313 ;
seizure of Orleans, 271 ;
sentence of, 249 ;
trial of, 16 , 21 , 243 , 275 -76
Confession of Augsburg (1530), 204 , 371
Conseil du Roi:
on Council of Trent, 301 ;
and majority of Charles IX, 297 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 278 ;
Parlement's opposition to, 221 ;
role in Edict of July, 278
Conseillers:
backgrounds of, 42 ;
clerical duties of, 81 ;
in Edict of Nantes debate, 448 n;
Harlay on, 143 ;
increase in numbers, 155 ;
salaries of, 50
Conseillers de ville, clerics among, 57
Conseil Privé André Guillart on, 17 ;
in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;
of Henri IV, 451 , 452 -53
Conspiracy of Amboise, 18 , 239 , 240 , 242 , 326 ;
Bourbon complicity in, 243 , 275 , 476
Constitutionalism, French, 59 -60;
components of, 61 , 67 ;
Diefendorf on, 321 ;
L'Hôpital's stance on, 311 -12;
Parlement's championship of, 60 -61, 74 , 79 , 257 , 275 , 296 , 298 , 318 -19, 406 ;
Pasquier on, 65 ;
pragmatic views on, 472 ;
praticien-parlementaire views on, 469 ;
resurgence under François I, 64 ;
threat of religious toleration to, 477 , 481
Contarini, Gasparo (cardinal), 206 , 210
Controversial literature, religious, 103 -4
Cop, Nicolas, 204
Coquille, Guy, 31 ;
L'Institution du droit français , 154
Coras, Jean de, 286
Corporatism, French, 67 , 77 -80;
in customary law, 79 ;
Parlement's role in, 80 ;
Pasquier's interest in, 79
Corruption:
in history of Gaillard, 114 ;
Loisel on, 136 -37;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 145 ;
in Parlement, 143 ;
and venality, 114
Cotton, Père, 102 n, 455
Council of Trent, 90 ;
on ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 298 -99, 305 ;
effect on Gallican liberties, 183 , 184 , 222 , 228 , 299 -301, 304 , 369 ;
final sessions (1562-63), 184 , 298 , 326 ;
Fontainebleau consultations on, 303 -7;
French delegation to, 291 , 299 -301;
national rivalries in, 222 ;
on reformation of princes, 298 , 300 ;
second session of, 183 ;
third session of, 299 .
See also Trent decrees
Counter-Reformation, 1 ;
challenge to parlementaire values, 174 -75;
condemnation of French bishops, 90 ;
effect on law and order, 145 ;
in France, 174 , 273 ;
Gallican response to, 346 -52, 478 ;
Guise-Lorraine support of, 352 ;
liberal phase of, 205 ;
Pasquier on, 115 .
See also Council of Trent; Trent decrees
Country life, 150 ;
L'Estoile on, 152 ;
romanticization of, 151
Couperie, Pierre, 149
Cour des Aides, Pierre (I) Séguier in, 20
Cour des Monnaies, 466 , 467 , 468
Cousinet (lawyer), book collection of, 99
Coutras, battle of, 351 , 352
La coutume. See Customary law
Crespin, Jean, 234 n
Crime:
parlementaire attitude toward, 144 -49;
remission by monarchy, 148
Crisis generation (of Parlement), 12 ;
Christophe de Thou's leadership of, 19 , 22 -23, 25 , 104 , 183 , 224 , 320 ;
divisions in, 226 -19;
leadership of, 19 ;
Loisel's role in, 30 ;
religious opinion in, 244 -48, 479 ;
struggle over jurisdictions, 84 -87
Croesus (Athenian), 354
Crouzet, Denis, 341 , 411
Crusades, 116 ;
French leadership of, 163
Cujas, Jacques, 27 , 30 , 31 , 96
Culture, French:
effect of Roman Catholicism on, 162 -64
Cummings, Mark, 34 -35, 36 , 82 n, 109 n;
on career patterns in Parlement, 81 , 439 , 462 , 469 , 472 ;
on parlementaire status, 155 n
Curés, Parisian, 422 ;
attacks on Brisson, 390 ;
attacks on Henri IV, 399 , 410 ;
attacks on Parlement, 349 -50, 409 ;
on Estates of the League, 404 ;
exaltation of papacy, 394 ;
J.-A. de Thou on, 354 -55;
Mayenne's leniency toward, 390 .
See also Clerics; Preachers
Customary law:
codification of, 48 ;
contrast
Customary law (continued )
with Roman law, 65 ;
de Thou's work on, 24 ;
importance to constitutionalism, 79 ;
Le Caron's work on, 32 ;
parlementaire interest in, 105 ;
property in, 52 -53;
redaction of, 24 , 48 , 66 , 80 ;
respect of monarchy for, 66 ;
special commissions on, 48 ;
synthesis with fundamental law, 481 .
See also Fundamental law
Customary law, Parisian:
corporatist principles of, 79 ;
preeminence of, 65 -66
D
Damours, Conseiller, 421 ;
and Henri IV's entry into Paris, 430 ;
and Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 436
Dandino (papal nuncio), 346
Davis, Natalie Zemon, 148
Day of the Barricades (1588), 25 , 187 , 341 ;
Guise preparations for, 356 -57;
Henri III in, 358 -59, 360 ;
L'Estoile on, 358 -60;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 187 n, 358 -60;
Parlement during, 361 -62;
Pasquier during, 28
De Caprariis, Vittorio, 93 , 287 ;
on Council of Trent, 302 , 304
De Crue de Stoutz, F., 325
De ecclesia emendanda (1538), 210
Denault, Gerald, 85
Descimon, Robert, 340 -41, 461 , 462 , 464 , 465
Des corps politiques (de Lavie), 80
Desjardins, Lieutenant Criminel, 259 , 260
Desportes, Philippe, 107
Dewald, Jonathan, 457 ;
on crime, 120 n, 144 , 145
Le Dialogue d'entre le Maheustre et le Manant , 390 n, 393 , 415 -16
"Dialogue des avocats du Parlement du Paris" (Loisel), 30 , 82 n, 93 , 116 , 119 , 135 -36, 463 ;
model parlementaires in, 137 -40
Diane de Poitiers, 220 , 280 ;
and François Olivier, 18 ;
loss of influence, 238 ;
protégés of, 21
Didier, Noël, 246
Diefendorf, Barbara, 46 ;
on autonomy of children, 56 ;
on benefices, 47 ;
on Catherine de Médicis, 319 ;
on conseillers, 42 ;
on constitutional process, 321 ;
on family, 120 n;
on Huguenots, 320 , 421 ;
on inheritance, 128 ;
on life-style, 150 ;
on marriage, 54 , 55 , 125 ;
on religious hatred, 289 n;
on widows, 120 n, 127
Dijon: elite of, 130 , 131 ;
liguers in, 393 .
See also Parlement of Dijon
Diplomatic missions, of parlementaires, 3 , 48 , 49
Discourse on Life and Death (Du Plessis-Mornay), 152
Disques, François, 200
Dissenters, religious. See Calvinism; Huguenots; Protestants; Religious dissenters
Dolet, Étienne, 155 ;
banning of works, 209 , 211 ;
execution of, 182 , 212
Dongois, Nicolas, 3
Dorigny, Nicolas, 48 , 198
Dorigny family, 43
Dormy, François, 267 n, 280
Doucet, Roger, 98 , 100
Dreux, battle of, 283 , 284 , 288 , 299
Droit de Gaillard, Pierre, La Vraye Methode qu'on doit tenir en la lecture de l'histoire , 112 -15
Drouot, Henri, 393 , 420 , 461 , 464 ;
on Parlement of Dijon, 481 n
Du Bellay, Eustache (bishop of Paris), 108
Du Bellay, Joachim, 108 ;
Deffense et Illustration de la langue françoise , 24 , 94
Du Bellay, Louis, 47
Du Bellay, René, 200
Du Belloy (Huguenot), 364
Dubois, Pierre, 161 , 476
Du Bourg, Anne:
arrest of, 237 ;
execution of, 237 , 238 , 239 , 258 , 479 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 236 ;
religious views of, 244 , 245 ;
trial of, 16 , 237
Du Chesne, Guillaume, 196
Du Drac, Adrien, 21 , 229 , 447 ;
book collection of, 99 ;
and profession of faith, 291 ;
remonstrance against Edict of Romorantin, 241
Du Drac family:
marriage alliances of, 13 , 17 ;
rise of, 21
Du Faur, Louis:
absenteeism of, 292 n;
arrest of, 237 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 236 ;
trial of, 246 , 247
Du Faur family, 29
Du Ferrier, Arnauld, 33 , 48 , 235 , 292 ;
attempted arrest of, 237 ;
at Council of Trent, 299 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49 , 250 , 291 ;
religious views of, 312
Du Four, Hiérosme, 448
Du Haillan, Bernard, 29 ;
on ethnic rivalry, 129 ;
Histoire de France , 93 ;
on royal domain, 68
Du Mesnil, Baptiste, 29 ;
Advertissement sur le faict du Concile de Trente , 304 -5;
and Edict of January, 269 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 ;
as model parlementaire, 138 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280 ;
on royal commissions, 48 ;
in tumult of St-Médard, 260
Du Monceau, Guillaume de, 217
Du Monceau, Lancelot, 217
Du Moulin, Charles:
career of, 306 ;
legal scholarship of, 105 , 464 ;
on nationalism, 93 .
Works: Les Commentaires analytiques , 306 ;
Conseil sur le faict du Concile de Trente , 89 , 305 , 306 -7
Du Moulin, François, 190 -92
Du Perron, Jacques Davy, 442
Duprat, Antoine:
as abbot of St-Benoît, 90 , 92 ;
and Auvergnat faction, 43 , 45 ;
benefices of, 178 , 180 , 195 , 200 ;
and Concordat of Bologna, 178 ;
death of, 205 ;
enmity of parlementaires to, 164 , 178 , 180 , 195 -96;
paraphernalia of, 71 -72;
in Parisian diocesan council, 201 ;
parlementaire candidates of, 9
Dupuy brothers, scholarship of, 104 -5
Du Tiller, Jean, 73 , 93 ;
archival work of, 88 ;
and lit de justice (1563), 296 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 278 -79, 280 ;
Recueils des Roys de France , 88 ;
and registration of Pacification of Amboise, 285
Du Vair, Guillaume, 29 , 421 ;
on l'affaire Brisson , 408 ;
bourgeois values of, 426 ;
career of, 37 -38;
compromises with constitutionalism, 470 ;
defense of Salic law, 92 , 332 , 391 , 406 , 407 , 408 -9, 418 ;
on Estates General, 86 -87;
in Estates of the League, 402 ;
on fundamental law, 63 ;
and Henri IV's entry into Paris, 430 -31;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;
influence on French rhetoric, 470 n;
interest in Stoicism, 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 ;
legal scholarship of, 105 ;
as liguisant , 345 , 353 -54, 362 ;
neo-Stoicism of, 470 , 471 ;
oration on Mary Stuart, 353 -54;
during Paris League rebellion, 332 , 333 ;
on parlementaire ideals, 134 ;
political philosophy of, 61 , 383 ;
as politique , 109 , 354 , 362 , 470 , 471 ;
proscription of, 38 ;
record of Harlay's discours , 344 -45;
refusal to leave Paris, 383 ;
on release of parlementaires from prison, 376 -77;
religious views of, 312 , 471 ;
support of Henri IV, 425 -26, 471 ;
withdrawal from public life, 345 , 383 .
Works: Anecdotes , 383 ;
La Constance , 383 ;
Discours du 5 août , 382 ;
Discours sur les barricades , 344 , 362 ;
L'Exhortation la Paix , 406 -7, 470 ;
Lettre d'un bourgeois de Paris , 470 ;
La Philosophie morale de Stoïques , 37 ;
Response d'un bourgeois de Paris , 425 -26;
La Sainte Philosophie , 37 ;
Suasion de l'arrêt pour la manutention de la loi salique , 391 , 408 ;
Supplication au roi , 376 -77, 382 -83
Du Val, Nicole, 218 ;
attempted arrest of, 237
Dwellings, Parisian, 149 -50;
inviolability of, 54 , 253
E
Early generation (of Parlement), 12 ;
reaction to heresy, 475 , 478
Edict of Amboise (1560), 240
Edict of April 19 (1561), 251 -54
Edict of Beaulieu. See Peace of Monsieur
Edict of Chateaubriand (1551), 222
Edict of Compiègne (1557), 231
Edict of Coucy (1535), 205
Edict of Fontainebleau (1540), 182 ;
heresy in, 207 , 208
Edict of January (1562), 109 , 276 , 450 ;
failure of, 270 ;
implementation of, 272 ;
L'Hôpital on, 310 ;
Paris's exemption from, 271 , 277 ;
parlementaire opposition to, 188 , 257 , 264 -69, 319 ;
provisions of, 263 -64;
publication of, 265 ;
registration of, 269 , 294 , 298 , 477 ;
terms of, 290
Edict of July (1561), 263 ;
effect on Calvinism, 256 ;
registration of, 257 ;
Suriano on, 291 -92
Edict of La Rochelle (1573), 314 ;
registration of, 321
Edict of Nantes (1598-99), 4 , 118 n, 261 n, 326 ;
de Thou on, 446 , 448 ;
fragility of, 450 , 478 ;
implementation of, 4 , 449 -50;
L'Estoile on, 446 , 447 -48, 449 n;
parlementaire opposition to, 382 n, 445 ;
Parlement's deliberation on, 444 -49;
Pasquier on, 449 ;
registration of, 91 , 188 , 445 , 451 , 477
Edict of Paris (1543), 182
Edict of St-Germain (1570), 314 , 315 ;
failure of, 317 ;
rights of Huguenots in, 316
Edict of Union (1588), 315 n;
registration of, 365
Edicts:
against Protestant assemblies, 258 ;
registration of, 68 , 69 , 71 , 224 , 231 , 252 , 298 , 435 , 477 -78
Edicts, fiscal: of Charles IX, 342 n;
of Henri II, 224 , 342 -45
Edicts of Longjumeau (1568), 314 , 315
Edicts of Pacification, 309 ;
in chambres mipartie, 261 n, 324 ;
disputes under, 118 ;
Du Mesnil on, 304 -5;
formulation of, 21 , 49 ;
Harlay on, 457 ;
registration of, 297 ;
terms of, 314 .
See also Peace of Monsieur (1576)
Edicts of Romorantin, 241 , 310 ;
modification of, 250
Edicts of Toleration, 326 , 478 ;
of 1577, 30 ;
and formation of Paris League, 334 ;
liguer preachers on, 443 ;
parlementaire opposition to, 260 , 347 -
See also Edict of Nantes (1598-99)
Education:
humanistic, 96 -97;
legal, 98 , 473
Elisabeth de Hauteville, 255
Élisabeth de Valois (consort of Philip II), 308 , 405 ;
marriage of, 238 n, 303 , 307
Elites:
in conversion crisis, 410 -11;
mobility of, 130 -31
Elites, robin , 52 , 56 , 480 ;
attitude toward religious dissent, 381 ;
de Thou's leadership of, 22 ;
gap between robins and, 82 ;
libraries of, 176 ;
life-style of, 152 -53;
marriage strategies of, 55 , 57 -58;
mobility of, 130 ;
in Parlement, 10 -11, 41 ;
patronage of, 58 ;
urban character of, 150 .
See also Parlementaires
Elizabeth I (queen of England), 102 ;
conflict with Mary Stuart, 352 ;
religious policy of, 228 , 250 , 395
Emilio, Paulo, 96
England:
Reformation in, 204 ;
religious dissent in, 175 ;
sorcery cases in, 147
Épernon, Nogarette de la Valette (duc d'), 354 -55, 361
Ephemera, printed, 101 , 102 , 141 , 142
Épices (fees), abolition of, 224
Épinac, Pierre (cardinal-archbishop of Lyon), 369 -70;
in Satyre Ménippée , 427
Equality, and class, 129
Erasmus, Desiderius:
in Berquin case, 202 ;
in book collections, 100 ;
parlementaire opinion on, 195 ;
"philosophy of Christ," 312 ;
Valois sponsorship of, 190 ;
on war, 157
Espagnolisés , 402
Espiner-Scott, Janet, 29
Essai sur l'idée du parfait magistrat , 134 -35
Estates General, 130 , 242 , 345 ;
of 1560, 257 ;
of 1577, 324 ;
of Blois (1588-89), 353 n, 366 , 368 -69, 373 , 374 ;
control of royal finances, 362 ;
in crisis of 1588, 86 ;
decline of, 87 ;
failure of 1614, 87 n;
L'Hôpital in, 84 -85, 311 ;
on minority of Charles IX, 249 ;
origins of, 86 ;
during Paris League, 340 ;
purpose of, 85 ;
relationship with Parlement, 85 -87;
resistance to religious toleration, 325 n;
in Satyre Ménippée , 429 ;
and Trent decrees, 369
Estates General of the League (1593), 392 , 398 , 400 , 477 ;
dissolution of, 413 ;
Henri IV's conference with, 403 -5;
L'Estoile on, 401 , 404 ;
Mayenne's convocation of, 402 ;
and Parlement, 402 -14;
succession debate in, 407
Este, Hippolyte d' (cardinal of Ferrara), 265
Estienne, Henri d', 144
Estrées, Gabrielle d', 412
Ethnic rivalry, French, 115 , 130
Étienne, Charles, Maison rustique , 152
Eucharist: Council of Trent on, 299 ;
Du Bourg on, 245 ;
L'Estoile on, 168 ;
Lutheran doctrine of, 204 , 246 ;
parlementaire ruling on, 200 ;
sacramentarian doctrine of, 193 , 201 ;
Sorbonne doctrines on, 209 , 247
Europe:
religious factions in, 227 -28;
role of lawyers in, 473 -75;
support for Huguenot party in, 185
Évangélisme , :192
Evocations, royal. of Grand Conseil, 72 , 84 , 180 , 194 ;
Lizet's denunciation of, 180 ;
parlementaire protest of, 77 , 84 , 197 , 198
Exceptionalism, French, 61 n
Exile:
of Clement Marot, 193 ;
of Guillaume Farel, 193 ;
of heretics, 251 ;
of Michel Gailliard, 255 ;
of parlementaires, 37 , 421 , 438 , 481 ;
of politiques , 421 ;
of Protestant ministers, 266 , 268 ,
of reformers, 193 , 205 ;
return from, 200 , 203 , 253 -54
Expilly, Claude, 129 ;
on clemency, 148
Exsurge domine (Bull, 1520), 192
"Extraits des Registres Criminels du Parlement of Paris" (manuscript), 3
F
Fabius Maximus, 437
Factions:
dependence among, 23 n;
in court of Catherine de Médicis, 84 , 186 , 250 , 275 . See also Guise-Lorraine faction
Families, robin , 82 ;
alliances among, 26 , 54 -55, 120 ;
autonomy within, 56 -57, 121 ;
and ideal magistrate, 465 -66;
importance of, 121 ;
inheritance of office, 224 ;
organization of, 121 -22;
parent-child relations in, 122 ;
stabilizing influence of, 58
Farel, Guillaume:
exile of, 193 ;
at Geneva, 204 ;
leadership of reformers, 173 , 201 ;
return to France, 200 , 203
Farge, James, 191 , 192
Fauchet, Claude:
career of, 28 ;
estate of, 153 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 n;
literary works of, 28 -29;
as parlementaire spokesman, 466
Fauchet, Nicole, 28
Faudoas, François (comte de Belin), 399 , 420 , 421
Faye, Bartholomé, 234 , 268 n;
career of, 25 -26;
and profession of faith, 291 ;
remonstrance to edict of April 19 (1561), 252 ;
in trial of Condé, 234 n, 275
Faye, Jacques, 26 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 359 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 348 -49, 458 , 460 ;
as model parlementaire, 138 ;
in Parlement of Tours, 31 ;
support of Henri III, 31 , 344 ;
on threat of Inquisition, 348 ;
in Trent decrees debate, 102 , 369 -70, 371
Félibien, Michel, 203
Ferrara, Hippolyte d'Este (cardinal of), 265
Fichart (procureur), 464
Field of Cloth of Gold, 49
Flanders, heresy in, 426
Fleurs des examples (devotional book), 119
Fleury, Étienne (II), 446
Florette, Jean, 218
Foix, Paul de, 22 , 33 ;
arrest of, 237 ;
in Cordelier dispute, 347 n;
diplomatic missions of, 49 ;
readmission to Parlement, 250 ;
religious beliefs of, 246 -48, 292 , 294 , 312 ;
suspicion of heresy, 25 ;
trial of, 244 -45
Fonsomme, Christophe de, 33 , 258
Fontainebleau council (1560), 242
Fontainebleau council (1564), 303 -7
Ford, Franklin, 128 ;
on ennobled robins , 50
Foundation-edifice metaphors, 62
France:
alliance with Scotland, 227 ;
autonomy of, 460 , 477 ;
as centralized state, 464 ;
corporatist character of, 67 , 77 -80;
cultural nationalism of, 67 , 115 -16, 117 -18;
divisions under First Civil War, 287 ;
ethnic rivalry in, 115 , 130 ;
Gaillard's history of, 114 -15;
importance of family in, 121 ;
influence of antiquity on, 106 ;
litigation in, 145 ;
as most Christian kingdom, 161 , 411 -12;
national consciousness of, 24 ;
nationalism in, 91 -94;
power structure of, 274 ;
precedence over Spain, 305 ;
religious nationalism of, 162 ;
role of law in, 59 ;
social institutions of, 53 .
See also Constitutionalism, French; Nationalism, French
François, cardinal de Guise. See Guise, François de (cardinal)
François, duc d'Alençon, 12 , 78 , 102 ;
death of, 31 , 186 , 187 , 325 , 333 , 477 ;
as heir apparent, 323 ;
patronage of parlementaires, 29 , 37 ;
support of Huguenots, 323 -24
François, duc de Guise, 377
François I (king of France):
additions to Parlement, 41 ;
and affaire des placards , 181 ;
avenues of advancement under, 46 -47;
in Berquin case, 181 , 191 , 194 , 199 -200, 202 ;
capture at Pavia, 92 , 179 , 196 ;
and Charles V, 10 , 17 , 92 , 182 , 205 ;
and Concordat of Bologna, 177 -80;
constitutionalism under, 64 ;
creation of Chambre des Enquêtes, 10 ;
creation of judicial offices, 10 ;
creation of Rouen Chambre, 211 ;
death of, 212 ;
election as Holy Roman Emperor, 14 ;
foreign policy of, 205 ;
imprisonment of, 72 , 157 , 174 ;
Parlement under, 9 -10, 41 , 80 -82, 89 , 176 , 196 , 200 -201, 205 ;
patronage of parlementaires, 13 , 17 ;
public welfare policies of, 132 ;
release from imprisonment, 200 ;
religious policy of, 16 , 191 -92, 196 , 204 -5, 212 , 290 ;
suppression of dissent, 181 , 182 ;
suspension of parlementaires, 200 ;
use of Grand Conseil, 84 , 194 ;
use of lit de justice , 69 , 70 -71, 72 ;
use of venality, 9 , 47 , 82
François II (king of France): and Conspir-
François II (continued )
acy of Amboise, 243 ;
death of, 243 ;
marriage to Mary Stuart, 238
François, sieur de Fresnes (siegneur d'O), 359 , 434 , 436
François de Sales (Saint), 480
Franco-Spanish war (1557-59), 223 , 226 ;
end of, 273 ;
French defeats in, 232
Frankfurt book fair, 101 , 102 , 104
Franklin, Benjamin, 134
Franks:
conquest of Gaul, 162 ;
rivalry with Gauls, 115 , 130
Fraud, punishment for, 145
Frederick "the Wise," Elector of Saxony, 189
French language:
glorification of, 24 , 94 , 470 ;
parlementaire commitment to, 481 ;
teaching of, 97
French literature:
book collections of, 100 ;
classical, 472
French Reformed Church, 172 -75;
changes within, 228 ;
deputation to Catherine de Médicis, 255 ;
nationalism of, 174 ;
robins in, 219 ;
role in society, 173 ;
stages of development, 214
French Revolution, 473
Fronde, 77
La Fronde de la justice, 341 -46
Fumaroli, Marc, 469 , 470
Fumée, Adam (I), 48 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197
Fumée, Antoine, 234 ;
arrest of, 237 ;
on punishment of heresy, 235 ;
trial of, 246 ;
and tumult of St-Médard, 260
Fumée family, 44
Fundamental law, 61 ;
formulation of, 62 , 63 ;
under Henri IV, 477 ;
importance of, 65 n;
importance to parlementaires, 79 ;
of inalienability, 61 , 63 , 79 ;
Parlement's defense of, 68 -69, 403 ;
and succession of Infanta Isabella, 405 ;
synthesis with customary law, 481 ;
threat of League to, 175 .
See also Salic law
Funeral ceremonies, 75
Funeral orations, 102
G
Gabaston, Jean de, 260 , 282
Gabelle : administration of, 132 ;
exemption from, 52
Gaillard, Michel (seigneur de Longjumeau), 254 , 255
Gallican Church. See Catholic Church, Gallican
Gallicanism:
alliance with Huguenots, 185 ;
beliefs on absolution, 412 ;
and control of Church, 88 -91;
controversy of 1591, 393 -98;
Du Moulin's defense of, 306 -7;
effect of Concordat of Bologna on, 178 ;
as expression of nationalism, 91 ;
institutional, 457 ;
internationalism of, 457 -58, 459 ;
Jacques Faye's defense of, 348 -49, 458 , 460 ;
of Lizet, 16 ;
nationalistic elements of, 458 ;
and neo-Stoicism, 109 ;
parlementaire defense of, 1 , 20 , 60 , 67 , 80 , 88 , 174 , 195 , 302 , 459 -61;
Pasquier's defense of, 29 ;
of Pierre Pithou, 31 ;
pluralism of, 459 ;
of politiques , 471 ;
scholarship on, 456 -60;
Victor Martin on, 456 .
See also Catholic Church, Gallican
Gallicanism, episcopal, 88 ;
definition of, 20 n;
of parlementaires, 89 -91
Gallicanism, royal, 20 n, 88 , 89 ;
Jacques Faye and, 26
Gallican liberties, 88 -91, 164 , 300 -301, 305 ;
effect of Trent decrees on, 183 , 184 , 222 , 228 -301, 304 , 450 ;
under Henri IV, 477 ;
Powis on, 457
Ganay, Jeanne de, 13
Ganay family:
humanist education of, 96 ;
immigration to Paris, 43
Garrison-Estèbe, Janine, 261
Gastine brothers, 313
Gauls: monasteries of, 162 ;
rivalry with Franks, 115 , 130
Gayant, Louis:
in Chambre Ardente, 218 ;
and Edict of January, 266 , 267 n;
in negotiations with Condé, 279 , 280 ;
in trial of parlementaires, 237 ;
and tumult of St-Médard, 260
Geisendorf, Paul, 118 , 119 , 483
Gelosi (troupe of comedians), 322
Genealogy, French, 139
General Council of the Union, 377
Geneva, Reformed Church in, 204 , 227
Gens de robe :
access to high office, 461 ;
family alliances among, 26 ;
mentalité of, 4 ;
profession of faith for, 268 ;
prominent families of, 14 , 43 -45;
rapprochement with old nobility, 36 ;
supporters of Catherine de Médicis among, 278 ;
sympathy for reform, 262 . See also Robins
Gens du roi :
in Chambre Ardente, 218 ;
on Concordat of Bologna, 179 ;
on divisions
within Parlement, 234 ;
dwellings of, 149 n;
and Edict of January, 269 ;
and Edict of Nantes, 444 , 445 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 ;
of Henri II, 230 -31;
Loisel on, 137 ;
at Protestant services, 266 ;
and qualification for Parlement, 83 ;
in Tumult of St-Médard, 259
Gentil, René, 203
Gentillet, Innocent: Anti-Machiavel , 62 n
Georges, cardinal d'Amboise, 9 , 15
German states:
François's alliance with, 182 ;
Lutheranism of, 189 , 227 ;
religious dissent in, 175 ;
wars of religion in, 226
Gerson, Jean, 476
Gié, maréchal de, 46
Giesey, Ralph, 51 ;
on family, 121 ;
on funeral ceremonies, 75 ;
on propres , 53 ;
on Salic law, 63 n;
on venality, 82
Gillot, Jean, 428 n
Gondi, Pierre de (bishop of Paris), 244 , 342 ;
on Trent decrees, 442
Gondi family, 44
Gontaut, Charles de (sieur de Biron), 141 -42, 359
Gonzaga family, 44
Gonzague, Louis de (duc de Nevers). See Nevers, Louis de Gonzague (duc de)
Goubert, 130 -31
Gouberville, Gilles de, 128 , 155 ;
seigneurial life of, 150 -51
Goulas, Marie, 29
Grand' Chambre, 19 , 20 ;
under Henri II, 209 ;
life members of, 35 ;
lits de justice in, 19 , 20 ;
renovation of, 70 ;
royal attendance at, 71 ;
treatment of heresy in, 211 , 294 ;
ultra-Catholics in, 234
Grand Conseil, 70 ;
execution of Pacification of Amboise, 285 ;
Lizet's speech at, 180 ;
Louise de Savoie's evocation of, 72 , 84 , 198 ;
origin of, 86
Le Grand Moisonneur (almanac), 142
Les grands. See Nobility
Grands jours (circuit courts): Antoine Loisel on, 29 -30;
parlementaires on, 48 ;
Pasquier on, 27 ;
at Poitiers, 16 , 127
Grassaille, 64 , 312
Grassin, Pierre, 218
Le gratin. See Elites, robin
Greed, L'Estoile on, 131 , 132 , 143
Greek language, teaching of, 97
Greffiers , 151 ;
under Henri IV, 438
Gregory XIII (pope), and enforcement of Trent decrees, 346
Gregory XIV (pope), excommunication of supporters of Henri IV, 394 -97, 414 , 426
Gregory, Saint, 171
Grieu, Gaston de, 267 n
Groslot, Jean, 230
Grotius, Hugo, 111
Group de Meaux :
execution of members, 182 , 212 ;
interrogation by Parlement, 198
Guarinus (preacher), 427
Guérin, lawyer, 213
Guillart, André (sieur du Mortier), 14 , 284 ;
arrest of, 313 -14;
career of, 17 -18;
dispatches of, 136 ;
on nobility, 130 , 467 ;
as spokesman of Parlement, 16 ;
on use of force, 156 , 431
Guillart, Charles, 12 , 177 , 292 ;
in Berquin case, 199 , 200 -201, 202 ;
on constitutional process, 180 , 406 ;
at lit de justice (1527), 70 -71, 84 ;
as mainstream spokesman, 14 , 74 , 195 ;
opposition to venality, 77 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197
Guillart, Louis, 292
Guillart family, 14 ;
immigration to Paris, 44
Guise, François de (cardinal):
assassination of, 79 , 174 , 187 , 300 , 371 , 372 -74, 377 ;
L'Hôpital's eulogy of, 240
Guise, Henri (duc de):
and Achille de Hat-lay, 363 ;
assassination of, 79 , 174 , 187 , 283 , 284 , 371 , 372 -74, 377 ;
in battle of Auneau, 351 , 354 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 358 -59, 361 ;
funeral services for, 283 n;
leadership of Paris League, 338 ;
massacre of Huguenots, 270 ;
Parisian supporters of, 270 , 276 ;
Pasquier on, 372 -73;
at pourparler de Paris , 256 ;
preparation for Day of Barricades, 356 , 357 ;
replacement of royal officers, 363 , 364 ;
seizure of Châlons, 336 ;
on Trent decrees, 369 -70;
in Triumvirate, 251 , 277 ;
visit to Paris (1585), 342
Guise, princesses of, 432
Guise-Lorraine faction, 12 , 469 ;
alliance with Diane de Poitiers, 220 ;
alliance with papacy, 227 ;
alliance with Spain, 185 , 227 , 367 ;
benefices of, 280 ;
cardinal de Lorraine's leadership of, 231 , 334 ;
Guise-Lorraine faction (continued )
Catherine de Médicis's opposition to, 242 ;
and Conspiracy of Amboise, 239 ;
control of government, 274 ;
control over Parlement, 221 ;
and duc d'Alençon, 324 ;
and Estates General, 85 ;
fall of, 276 ;
under François II, 238 ;
and François Olivier, 18 ;
goals of, 331 ;
grievances against Henri III, 336 ;
Huguenot opposition to, 239 -40;
independence of Sixteen from, 387 ;
leadership of Holy League, 174 , 187 , 334 ;
Lizet and, 220 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 236 ;
Parisian support of, 277 ;
during Paris League rebellion, 332 ;
parlementaire view of, 274 ;
patronage of Pasquier, 27 ;
policy of inquisition, 241 ;
propaganda of, 22 ;
protégés of, 17 , 18 ;
and recall of Henri IV, 335
H
Hacqueville, André de, 392
Hacqueville family, 17
Hale, J. R., 157
Han, Jean de, 250 n, 259
Hanley, Sarah, 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 -73, 484 ;
on parlementaire unity, 298 ;
on seance of Charles IX, 295
Harding, Robert R., 274
Harlay, Achille de, 22 , 26 ;
arrest by League, 375 ;
compromises with constitutionalism, 470 ;
on corruption, 143 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 459 ;
discours to Henri III, 343 -44;
and duc de Guise, 363 , 364 ;
in Edict of Nantes debate, 447 ;
and edicts of pacification, 456 , 457 ;
in First Civil War, 284 ;
on fundamental law, 63 ;
and Guise assassinations, 374 ;
on Henri IV's coronation, 427 ;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 436 , 437 ;
imprisonment of, 40 , 371 ;
leadership of later generations of Parlement, 332 ;
liberalism of, 248 ,
on nobility, 130 ;
on parlementaire ideals, 134 , 468 ;
and registration of Trent decrees, 452 ;
release from prison, 376 ;
on role of monarch, 343 -44;
as spokesman of mainstream, 39 -40, 188 , 234 , 343 ;
support of Henri IV, 77 , 362 -63, 381
Harlay, Christophe de, 16 , 188 ,
accusations of heresy against, 272 , 281 ;
career of, 21 -22;
and Edict of January., 265 , 267 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 , 305 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 237 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280 ;
and profession of faith, 291
Harlay, Louis de, 202
Harlay family, 22 , 42 ;
inheritance of office, 224
Haton, Claude, 118
Hayden, Michael, 419
Hennequin, Nicolas, 200
Hennequin, Pierre, 268 n, 338
Hennequin dynasty, 9 , 43
Henri II (king of France):
additions to Parlement, 41 ;
advisers of, 213 ;
alliance with Paul IV, 227 ;
arrest of parlementaires, 237 -38;
attendance at Parlement, 74 ;
character of, 213 ;
and Council of Trent, 90 ;
court factions of, 231 -32;
death of, 226 , 238 , 274 ;
entry into Paris, 215 ;
fiscal edicts of, 224 , 342 -45;
handling of heresy cases, 19 , 225 , 230 -31;
Inquisition plans of, 19 , 20 , 184 , 229 -32;
on lits de justice , 73 ;
marriage to Catherine de Médicls, 205 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 235 -37;
opposition to Council of Trent, 222 ;
patronage of François Olivier, 18 ;
quarrel with pope Julius, 183 , 222 ;
relations with Parlement, 176 , 182 , 209 , 223 -25, 229 -34
Henri III (king of France):
acceptance of Trent decrees, 346 ,
advice of Catherine de Médicis to, 362 n;
advisers of, 367 , 368 ;
assassination of, 332 , 372 , 380 -81, 413 , 458 , 477 ;
in battle of Auneau, 351 ;
challenge of League to, 185 ;
character of, 322 , 372 ;
and Christophe de Thou, 25 , 337 ;
concessions to Holy League, 78 ;
concessions to Huguenots, 341 ;
condemnation of magistrates, 438 ;
Confession of, 367 n;
confessor of, 347 ;
conflict with Charles IX, 321 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 358 -59, 360 ;
and duc d'Épernon, 354 ;
edicts of, 315 n, 342 ;
edicts of pacification, 32 , 456 ;
at Estates of Blois, 368 -69;
exile of, 332 , 363 ;
financial policy of, 131 -32;
fiscal excesses of, 334 , 336 ;
as head of Paris League, 337 ;
Jacques Faye's support of, 31 ;
League attacks on, 354 ;
L'Estoile on, 322 -23, 342 , 371 ;
marriage edict of, 54 ;
mignons of, 322 , 323 , 334 , 351 , 434 ;
and Paris League rebellion, 332 , 367 -69;
Parlement under, 320 , 342 ;
patronage of Pasquier, 27 , 28 ;
religious dissent under, 174 , 213 -14;
religious os-
tentation of, 244 , 323 n, 331 n, 334 , 348 , 354 ;
replacement of royal officers, 364 ;
sale of benefices, 224 ;
satires on, 323 ;
special commissions of, 48 ;
and succession of Henri IV, 378 -79;
support of ultra-Catholics, 19 , 347 ;
threat of ultra-Catholics to, 324 ;
unpopularity of, 342 -44;
venality of, 223 , 224 , 343 ;
war with Charles V, 223 , 225
Henri IV (king of France):
accommodation with duc de Mayenne, 393 , 407 ;
accommodation with papacy, 441 -43, 450 , 477 ;
advisers of, 442 , 451 ;
alliance with Parlement, 188 ;
ambassadors of, 49 ;
amnesty of, 148 , 432 n, 433 , 434 ;
appeal to Parisians, 416 ;
ascension to throne, 12 , 29 , 90 -91;
assassination of, 147 , 456 ;
banishments by, 438 -39;
in battle of Coutras, 351 , 352 ;
Bill of Excommunication against, 349 ,
Calvinism of, 187 ;
and cardinal de Bourbon, 395 -96;
character of, 416 -17;
conference with Estates of the League, 403 -5;
confessors of, 455 ;
Conseil Privé of, 451 , 452 -53;
conversion ceremony of, 353 n, 412 -13;
conversion of, 63 , 88 , 109 , 164 , 188 , 332 , 370 , 382 , 398 , 409 -10, 458 , 477 ;
coronation of, 427 ;
custody of, 264 ;
declaration of faith, 394 -95;
Du Vair's support of, 425 -26;
under Edict of Union, 365 ;
embassy to Clement VIII, 414 -15;
embassy to Venice, 444 ;
excommunication of followers, 394 -97, 414 , 426 ;
as heir apparent, 176 , 325 , 333 -34, 349 ;
and implementation of Trent decrees, 442 , 444 , 451 -56;
instruction in Catholicism, 353 n, 400 -401, 412 ;
marriage of, 185 , 320 , 450 -41;
military victories of, 385 , 416 -17, 424 ;
myth of, 417 -18;
negotiations with Spain, 443 ;
neo-Stoicism of, 112 ;
oath of abjuration, 412 ;
oath of obedience to, 419 ;
papal absolution for, 407 , 410 , 414 -15, 441 -43, 451 , 458 , 469 ;
Pasquier on, 379 , 381 , 382 ;
patronage of parlementaires, 31 , 32 ;
policy toward Protestants, 395 ;
recall to court, 335 ;
reduction of Paris, 398 , 430 -33, 436 ;
rehabilitation of Parlement of Paris, 434 -40;
relations with Gregory XIV, 394 ;
and Semonneux , 399 ;
siege of Chartres, 389 ,
siege of Paris, 386 -87, 398 -99;
succession debate over, 370 -71, 406 -10;
succession of, 378 -81, 458 -59;
support of Henri III, 378 -79;
support of politique-parlementaires for, 381 -82, 482 ;
treatment of ligueurs , 432 n, 438 , 443 ;
treaty with Pontoise, 380 ;
triumph over League, 4 , 188 ;
on value of nobility, 129 -30.
See also Mémoires-Journaux (L'Estoile), Henri IV in
Henry VI (king of England), 75 -76
Henri de Bourbon (king of Navarre), 325
Henri de Condé, 349 , 447 ;
conversion of, 442 ;
succession of, 446
Henri de Navarre. See Henri IV (king of France)
Heredity: effect on corruption, 53 ;
in parlementaire offices, 82 , 156
Heresy, 1 ;
arrêts against, 213 ;
attitude of parlementaires toward, 2 , 184 , 185 , 195 -200, 394 , 464 ;
banishment for, 216 , 217 ;
in Cognac, 217 ;
ecclesiastical definition of, 246 ;
edicts against, 207 , 208 , 211 , 219 ;
equation with sedition, 201 -5, 207 , 208 ;
Eucharist controversy in, 193 ;
in Flanders, 426 ,
Henri II's handling of, 19 , 225 , 230 -31;
in Languedoc, 162 , 204 , 206 ,
as lèse-majesté, 208 ;
"Lutheran," 172 , 173 ;
in Parlement, 287 -88;
parlementaire commissions on, 182 , 196 -98, 201 , 211 , 214 ;
parlementaire specialists in, 48 -49, 194 ;
Parlement's jurisdiction over, 207 -8, 225 , 235 , 241 , 248 , 252 -54;
Parlement's treatment of, 19 -20, 194 -96, 210 -11, 230 , 233 -34, 477 , 478 ;
persecution of, 211 -12, 238 -39, 241 ;
punishment for, 216 -17, 219 , 235 -36, 253 -54;
recantation of, 216 ;
as reflection of social change, 475 ;
in Rouen, 208 , 211 ;
social controls on, 466 ;
and sorcery, 146 ;
trials of parlementaires for, 245 -46;
Valois policy toward, 19 , 181 , 182 , 196 , 205 , 207 -13;
Vaudois, 211 -12, 212 , 214 .
See also Blasphemy
Heretics:
among nobility, 217 ;
association with, 411 ;
banishment of, 216 , 217 ;
under Catherine de Médicis, 250 ;
exile of, 251
Les Hermaphrodites (Thomas), 141
Herodotus, 354
Histoire ecclésiastique , 234
History, parlementaire study of, 112 -19, 473
Holt, Mack, 481 n
Holy League. See League, Holy
Homicide, punishment of, 144
Hôpfl, Harro, 62
Hôtel de Ville:
city council of, 8 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 359 ;
divisions within, 320 ;
families in, 121 n;
rentes of, 10 , 189 ;
struggle for municipal government at, 386 ;
widows in, 127
Hotman, Antoine, 392
Hotman, Charles (sieur de Rocheblond), 338
Hotman, François:
on political theory, 60 .
Works. Anti-Tribonian , 106 -7;
Franco-Gallia , 110 , 187
Hotman, Pierre, 218
Hualt, Louis, 55
Huguenot (epithet), 252 , 253
Huguenot party:
association of Bourbons with, 274 ;
emergence of, 239 ;
noble families in, 217 , 218 ;
parlementaire view of, 274 ;
support in Europe, 185
Huguenots:
admiration of Cicero, 110 ;
associational rights of, 208 , 232 -33, 258 -59;
Catherine de Médicis' policy toward, 23 , 175 ;
Christophe de Harlay's defense of, 22 ;
concessions of Henri III to, 341 ;
constitutional views of, 61 ;
dress of, 232 n;
duc d'Alençon's support of, 323 -24;
on Edict of January, 263 ;
edicts of toleration for, 443 -44;
in Fifth Civil War, 323 ;
friendship with parlementaires, 2 ;
and fundamental law, 62 ;
legal discrimination against, 185 ;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 142 -43;
militancy of, 228 ;
military debts of, 342 n;
"monomachs," 187 n;
nationalism of, 287 ;
in the Netherlands, 317 ;
pacification of, 469 ;
under Pacification of Amboise, 285 ;
pamphleteers among, 59 , 186 -87, 238 ;
in Parlement, 243 , 445 ;
in Peace of Monsieur, 324 ;
and Pierre Lizet, 215 n;
places de sûreté for, 324 ;
prison sentences of, 313 -14;
punishment of, 216 -17, 313 -14;
resistance theory of, 65 n;
rights under Edict of Amboise, 287 ;
rights under Edict of St-Germain, 316 ;
in Third Civil War, 315 , 320 ;
triomphalisme of, 228 , 232 , 234 ;
violence against, 271 , 421 , 464 .
See also Heretics; Protestants; Religious dissenters
Humanism:
changes in, 97 n;
"Christian," 91 -92, 201 ;
influence of Tacitus on, 469 ;
of parlementaires, 95 -96;
"political," 111 ;
schools of, 96
Hundred Years War, 157 ;
monarchy following, 7 ;
parlementaires during, 136 ;
Pasquier on, 117 , 118
Huppert, George:
on class status, 112 ;
on L'Hôpital, 131 ;
on life-style, 120 n;
on parlementaire-historians, 116 , 473 ;
on Pasquier, 26 , 112 , 117 ;
on robins , 50 , 97 ;
on seigneurial life, 128 , 151
Hurault, Nicolas, 83
Hurault de L'Hôpital, Michel, 30
Hurault family, 9 , 45 ;
humanist education of, 96
I
Icons, vandalism of, 181 , 202 , 475
Immigrants to Paris, 43 ;
career patterns of, 42
Inalienability. See Royal domain, inalienability of
Index librorum prohibitorum:
of Rome, 183 , 210 ;
of Sorbonne, 182 , 189 , 194
Indulgences, sale of, 172
Infanticide, 144 -45
Inheritance:
in customary law, 52 -53;
importance to parlementaires, 128
Inquisition:
Henri II's proposal for, 19 , 20 , 184 , 229 -32;
Jacques Faye on, 348 ;
parlementaire opposition to, 231 -32;
Roman, 184 , 210
Intellectual history, role of lawyers in, 473
Isabella (Infanta of Spain), 405 -6, 407
Italians, in service of Catherine de Médicis, 43 -44, 322
Ivry, Battle of, 385
J
Jacquelot, Jean, 241
Jansenism, 35 , 470 ;
robin followers of, 480
Jeanne d'Albret (consort of Antoine de Bourbon), 90 , 249 , 258 , 264 ;
death of, 316 ;
Pius IV's summons to, 301 ;
royal progress of, 256 -57;
in Third Civil War, 315
Jesuits. See Society of Jesus
Jodelle, Étienne, 107
Jolippon, Louis, 217
Jouanna, Arlette:
on André Guillart, 17 , 18 , 156 ;
on class, 129 ;
on ethnic rivalry, 130
Journal de 1562 , 268 , 270 , 282 ;
on investigation of heresy, 288
Journal d'un bourgeois , 202 , 203 ;
on treatment of Protestants, 205
"La Journée de St-Séverin," 350 , 357
Joyeuse (mignon ), 351 , 354
Judges, caricature of, 155
Julius III (pope), 90 ;
quarrel with Henri II, 183 , 222
Jurgens, Madeleine, 149
Jusqu'au-boutistes , 424 , 431 , 434 ;
on absolution of Henri IV, 415 ;
under Henri IV, 439 ;
reabsorption into establishment, 41 ;
robins among, 340
Justice:
as check on monarchy, 64 ;
haute and basse , 154 -55, 156 ;
in history of Gaillard, 115 ;
sixteenth-century concept of, 129
K
Kaiser, Colin:
on Cour des Monnaies, 464 ;
on parlementaire ideals, 464 , 467 -68;
on qualification of parlementaires, 466 -67
Kelley, Donald R., 112 ;
on Budé, 106 ;
on Du Moulin, 306 , 307 ;
on Gaillard, 113 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 ;
on juridical nationalism, 93 ;
on Pierre Pithou, 31 ;
on "scholarly Pléiade," 26 , 29 , 79
Keohane, Nannerl, 471
Kerquefinen, Claude de, 33
Knecht, R. J., 72
Knox, John, 227
L
La Barde, Jacques de:
on blasphemy commission, 198 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197
La Barde, Jean de, 48
Labitte, Charles, 326
La Brosse family, 218
La Bruyère (Lieutenant Civil), 407
La Chapelle-Marteau (prévôt des marchands), 371
Lâcheté , 156
La Croix du Maine, François Grudé, 24 , 473
La Guesle, Jacques de, 346 ;
in Edict of Nantes debate, 446 , 447 ;
Gallicanism of, 458 ;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 437 , 438 ;
as praticien , 469 ;
and registration of Trent decrees, 452 ;
Remonstrances , 129 ;
support of Henri III, 378 ;
support of Henri IV, 381 ;
in Trent decrees debate, 369
Land, acquisition by robins , 50
Landes, Georges des, 447 , 448 n
Landriano (papal nuncio), 396 -97
Langlois, Martin, 415 , 433 ;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 435
Languedoc, heresy in, 162 , 204 , 206
La Plance, Regnier de, 221
La Popelinière, 117
La Porte, Eustache de:
arrest of, 237 ;
trial of, 246 , 294
Larcher, Claude, 390 n
La Rivière (Protestant minister), 270
La Roche-Flavin, Bernard de: apology for Parlement, 61 ;
on discipline of magistrates, 465 -66, 467 ;
on legal education, 98 ;
on Pax Roman,, 107 ;
popularity of writings, 153 ;
on religious attitudes, 165 , 167 ;
Treize Livres des Parlements de France , 40 , 134 -35, 464
La Roche-sur-Yon, prince of, 258 , 259 , 268
La Rue (member of Sixteen), 361
Later generations (of Parlement), 12 ;
career patters of, 439 ;
and defeat of League, 332 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 415 , 481 -82;
ideal magistrate of, 469 ;
leadership of, 331 -32;
pragmatism of, 472 , 481
Latin church fathers, book collections of, 100
Latin language:
parlementaire knowledge of, 96 ;
teaching of, 97 , 98
La Vacquerie, Perre de, 136
La Vallée, Jacques de, 468
Lavie, 80
Law:
relationship of Parlement to, 67 ;
role in French society, 59 .
See also Customary law; Fundamental law; Roman law
Law and order:
parlementaire attitude toward, 144 -49;
robin attitude toward, 134
Lawyers:
avarice of, 156 ;
medieval view of, 154 ;
numerical increase of, 155 ;
religious beliefs of, 474 n;
role in European culture, 473 -75.
See also Gens de robe; Robins
Lay jurisdiction:
over clergy, 460 ;
violation of, 20
Laymen: in Parlement, 41 , 80 -81, 466 ;
possession of benefices, 47
League, Holy:
Arnaud on, 36 ;
Christophe de Thou and, 23 ;
compromise with parlementaires, 37 ;
formation of, 324 , 334 ;
goals of, 174 ;
Henri III's concessions to, 78 ;
leadership of, 174 ;
legality of, 176 ;
L'Estoile on, 38 , 39 , 171 ;
pamphlets of, 100 , 326 ;
support of parlementaires for, 52 n;
ultramontanism of, 174
League, Paris, 63 , 187 , 188 ;
attack on Parlement, 374 -76, 388 ;
class struggle in, 340 ;
control of city, 380 ;
during Day of the Barricades, 362 ;
defeat of, 332 , 392 , 403 , 410 , 414 , 418 ;
divisions within, 339 , 402 ;
domination of Estates of Blois, 369 ;
founders of, 338 -39;
goals of, 402 , 462 ;
Henri III and, 337 , 367 -69;
membership of, 338 -39, 393 ;
murder of parlementaires, 340 , 390 -91, 408 , 439 ;
negotiations with papacy, 366 ;
oath of Parlement to, 419 ;
origin of, 331 , 333 -41;
parlementaire opposition to, 388 ;
Parlement under, 340 , 364 ;
phases of rebellion, 332 ;
politique opposition to, 352 , 386 ;
public opinion on, 421 ;
renunciation of membership in, 436 ;
robins in, 461 , 480 ;
royalist counteroffensive against, 378 -84;
as social threat, 419 -20;
Spanish aid to, 336 , 339 , 367 , 382 n;
on succession of Henri IV, 379 ;
support in provinces, 403 ;
truce with royalists, 413 , 417 , 423 .
See also Ligueurs
Lebrun, François, 121 n
Le Camus, Martin, 218
Le Caron, Louis (Charondas):
career of, 32 -33;
early life of, 32 ;
legal scholarship of, 105 ;
as mainstream spokesman, 86 , 464 ;
on Pax Romana, 107 ;
in "scholarly Pléiade," 28 .
Works: Commentaire de la Coutume de Paris ,
32, Pandectes , 129
Leclerc, Jean. See Bussy-Leclerc (Jean Leclerc)
Leclerc, Nicolas, 196
Le Coq, Antoine, 213 ;
in Chambre Ardente, 218
Le Coq, Nicolas, 200
Le Coq dynasty, 9
Lecteurs royaux , 191 , 192
Lefebvre, René, 48
Le Feron, Jean, 99 , 100
Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, 15 , 96 ;
evangelical reforms of, 172 ;
return of, 203 ;
translation of Bible, 177 , 189 ;
Valois protection of, 181 , 190 , 191 , 203
Leger, Étienne, 203
Légistes , 33 ;
constitutional views of, 61 ;
on customary law, 79 ;
ideals of, 154 , 463 , 464 ;
Loisel on, 139 ;
nationalism of, 93 ;
offices held by, 153 ;
on reform of Parlement, 463 -64;
self-image of, 153 ;
support of monarchy, 482
Le Jau, Jean, 447
Le Lièvre, Jean, 179
Le Maistre, Gilles, 218 ;
on commission to Catherine de Médicis, 269 ;
and Edict of January, 265 , 266 , 267 ;
on expulsion of Protestants, 281 ;
leadership of ultras, 234 , 237 , 277 ;
on loyalty to crown, 243 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280 ;
patronage by Guise family, 221 ;
as président, 183 , 184 , 222 ;
on punishment of heresy, 235 , 236 ;
venality of, 215
Le Maistre, Jean, 376 , 392 ;
as bon catholique françois , 421 -22;
defense of Salic law, 406 , 434 ;
and duc de Mayenne, 423 ,
in Estates of the League, 402 ;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;
in reduction of Paris, 430 ;
in succession debate, 409 , 410
Le Maistre, Pierre, 438
Le Maître family, 45
Le Maréschal, Claude, 448 n
Le Picart, Germain, 124
Le Roux, Jacques, 208 , 211 , 218
Le Roy, Louis, 129
Le Roy, Pierre, 428 n
Lescot, Léon, 438
Lèse-majesté, heresy as, 208
L'Estoile, Louis de, 39
L'Estoile, Pierre de, 38 -39;
admiration of Montaigne, 169 n;
on l'affaire Brisson , 390 -91;
on anti-Spanish sentiment, 388 ;
apology for Parlement, 61 ;
bias of, 484 ;
book collection of, 100 -104, 119 , 152 , 483 ;
character of, 140 ;
on coronation of Henri IV, 427 ;
on country life, 152 ;
on Day of the Barricades, 187 n, 358 -60;
on duc de Mayenne, 378 , 420 ;
on duc d'Épernon, 354 ;
early life of, 38 -39;
on Edict of Nantes, 446 , 447 -48, 449 n;
on Estates of the League, 404 ;
on family relationships, 122 -23;
on François de Monthelon, 368 ;
on Guise assassinations, 373 -74;
on Henri III's assassination, 381 ;
on Henri IV, 142 , 379 -80, 401 , 409 -10, 417 ;
on Henri IV's character, 417 ;
on Henri IV's entry into Paris, 430 , 431 -32;
on Henri IV's military victories, 385 ;
on Henri IV's observance of Holy Week, 436 ;
on Henri IV's succession, 382 ;
interrogation of Pierre Barrière, 414 ;
knowledge of theology, 171 -72;
on ligueur preachers, 388 -89, 396 ;
on Mary
Stuart, 352 ;
objectivity of, 119 ;
on Paris League, 38 , 39 n, 332 , 334 -35;
during Paris League rebellion, 333 , 364 ;
on Parlement of Châlons, 396 ;
on Parlement of Tours, 436 -37;
on political satires, 415 -16;
as politique , 322 n, 327 , 362 , 381 , 484 ;
on politiques , 399 ,
on publication of Trent decrees, 444 n;
on qualification for Parlement, 83 ;
reliability of writings, 483 -85;
on religion, 158 , 167 -68;
religious beliefs of, 168 -70;
on religious reformation, 170 -71;
on role of Parlement, 463 ;
on siege of Paris, 386 ;
on Sixteen, 375 , 380 , 391 -92, 462 ;
on sorcery, 146 ;
as spokesman of Parlement, 184 ;
on superstition, 141 -42, 171 , 350 ;
support of monarchy, 319 , 322 n;
on table of Madame de Montpensier, 350 ;
on usefulness of journals, 484 -85;
view of history, 118 ;
on wealth, 131 -32.
Works: Dévotions du Roi , 322 -23;
"Drolleries de la Ligue ," 152 ,
Journal d'Henri III , 39 , 322 -23.
See also Mémoires-Jour-naux (L'Estoile)
Letters of remission, 148
Lettres de jussion , 69
Le Verrier, Jean, 194
Le Viste, Antoine, 48 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49 ;
and Louise de Savoie, 92 , 197
Le Viste, Jeanne, 13
Le Viste family, 9 ;
immigration to Paris, 43 ;
marriage alliances of, 13 , 17
Le Voix, Jean, 447 , 448 n
L'Hermite de Souliers, Jean-Baptiste, 13 n
L'Hôpital, Louis de, 416
L'Hôpital, Michel de, 136 ;
on absolutism, 312 ;
acceptance of change, 312 n;
in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;
career of, 240 -41;
Catherine de Médicis's patronage of, 240 ;
circle of, 327 ;
Claude Fauchet and, 28 ;
conflict with Parlement, 23 n, 241 , 243 , 309 -10, 476 ;
convocation of Estates General, 84 -85, 87 ;
disputes with de Thou, 23 ;
and Edict of Amboise, 289 ;
on Edict of January, 266 ;
and Fran-çois Hotman, 106 ;
interest in Stoicism, 108 ;
on jurisdiction of Parlement, 297 -98;
in literary circles, 312 -13;
loss of influence, 76 ;
and majority of Charles IX, 296 ;
and Montmorency family, 326 ;
opposition to venality, 309 ;
Pasquier and, 33 ;
political theory of, 464 ;
on pourparler de Paris , 255 ;
poverty of, 131 ;
on religious unrest, 251 -52;
religious views of, 310 , 312 -13;
on role of Parlement, 257 , 311 ;
on role on Estates General, 311 ;
stance on constitutionalism, 311 -12;
on study of Greek, 97 ;
toleration policy of, 254 , 276 , 326 ;
on Trent decrees, 301 -2;
in trial of Condé, 275
Libraries:
of parlementaires, 95 , 98 -104;
scope of, 99 -100
Ligueurs :
alliance with politiques , 340 , 418 -19;
constitutional views of, 61 ;
in Dijon, 393 ;
and Gallicans, 175 ;
hard-line, 378 ;
under Henri IV, 439 , 443 ;
influence of Jesuits on, 36 ;
oath to Henri IV, 419 ;
in Parlement, 338 , 392 , 397 , 403 , 434 , 438 , 461 ;
religiosity of, 165 ;
takeover of Bureau de Ville, 363
Lincestre (preacher), 374 , 409
Lipsius, Justus, 110 ;
neo-Stoicism of, 111
Lit de justice , 484 ;
of July (1527), 70 -71, 72 -73;
as metaphor for Parlement, 74 ;
origin of, 70 ;
purpose of, 71 , 73 ;
in Rouen (1563), 87 , 295 , 296 n, 297 ;
symbolic value of, 69
Lizet, Pierre:
as abbot of St-Victor, 221 ;
as avocat du roi, 194 , 218 ;
in Berquin case, 193 , 194 , 215 ;
book collection of, 99 ;
in Chambre Ardente, 215 -16;
and Christophe de Thou, 22 , 23 ;
defense of Parlement, 74 , 84 ;
denunciation of evocations, 180 ;
denunciation of heresy, 210 , 211 , 476 ;
entry into Parlement, 10 ;
and Fran-çois Olivier, 19 ;
on iconoclasm, 202 ;
integrity of, 216 n;
leadership of ultra faction, 23 , 479 ;
on lit de justice , 74 ;
poverty of, 215 ;
as président, 16 , 182 , 183 , 194 -95;
removal from office, 183 , 184 n, 220 -21;
on Roman law, 24 ;
work on customary law, 48
Loire valley.
heresy in, 213 , 217 ;
itinerant courts in, 44
Loisel, Antoine:
on avenues of advancement, 45 ;
career of, 29 -30;
in Chambre de Justice, 30 ;
in chambre mi-partie, 261 n;
depiction of Pasquier, 135 -36, 137 , 139 , 463 ;
during domination of League, 31 , 135 ;
early life of, 29 ;
friendship with Pasquier, 27 , 135 ;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;
on Jean Jouvenal des Ursins, 467 ;
on Jean Le Maistre, 409 ;
on legal education, 98 ;
le-
Loisel, Antoine (continued )
gal scholarship of, 105 ;
on loyalty to monarch, 421 ;
on nobility, 130 ;
on Pax Romana, 107 ;
purge of Parlement registers, 434 ;
in "scholarly Pléiade," 28,135 ;
as spokesman of Parlement, 184 , 463 , 464 ;
work on customary law, 66 .
Works: "Dialogue des avocats du Parlement du Paris," 30 , 82 n, 93 , 116 , 119 , 135 -40, 463 ;
Guyenne , 118 , 119 ;
Homonoee ou l'Accord et union des subjets du Roy , 419 ;
Institutes coutumières , 30 -31;
La Puce , 30
Lollardy, 175
Longueville, duc de, 254
Lorraine, cardinal of. See Charles, cardinal de Lorraine
Lorraine, house of. See Guise-Lorraine faction
Lothair (king of France), 334
Louis, prince de Condé. See Condé, Louis (prince de)
Louis IX (king of France):
Gallican church under, 88 ;
in history of Gaillard, 113
Louis XI (king of France):
appointments to Parlement, 42 -43, 44 ;
expansion of royal domain, 43 ;
Parlement under, 7 -8, 70 -71
Louis XII (king of France):
accession to throne, 43 ;
on composition of Parlement, 8 -9;
creation of judicial offices, 9 ;
Parlement during, 71 ;
patronage of Seyssel, 15 ;
renovation of Grand' Chambre, 70
Louis XIII (king of France), 76
Louis XIV (king of France), absolutism of, 59
Louis d'Orléans, assassination of, 373
Louise de Savoie:
and Chambre des En-quêes, 10 ;
conflict with Parlement, 72 , 177 , 195 -201, 208 ;
death of, 204 ;
defense of Paris, 179 ;
evocation of Grand Conseil, 198 ;
Journal of, 190 ;
negotiations with Charles V, 199 ;
Parlement's support of, 157 ;
regency of, 14 , 77 , 84 , 92 ;
religious beliefs of, 190 -91;
Robertet's aid to, 9
Loyseau, Charles, 34 , 128 ;
antiquarianism of, 36 ;
on nobility, 50 ;
on royal domain, 68
Luillier, Guillaume, 218
Luillier, Jean, 430 ;
and duc de Mayenne, 423 -24;
in Estates of the League, 402
Luillier, Madeleine, 18
Luillier, Nicolas, 271 , 282
Luillier family, 14
Luther, Martin, 164 ;
banning of works, 194 ;
L'Estoile on, 171 ;
pamphlets of, 189
Lutheranism, 25 ;
doctrines of, 204
Luxembourg, duc de, 444
Lyons:
civil war in, 271 ;
immigrants from, 43 ;
surrender to Henri IV, 424
M
Machault, Jean-Baptiste, 375 , 438
Machiavélisme , 116 n, 472
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 465 ;
in history of Gaillard, 113 ;
influence on parlementaires, 17 ;
Pasquier on, 116
Mâcon, merchants of, 130
Magistrates. See Parlementaires
Maillard, André, 417 , 418 ;
Advertissement au Roy , 460
Mainstream. See Parlementaires, mainstream
Maître des requêtes (office), 35 ;
increase in numbers of, 155
Major, J. Russell, 59 , 274
Marburg, Colloquy of, 204
Mardi Gras, 141
Marguerite d'Angoulême, 205 ;
in Berquin case, 202 ;
correspondence with Briçonnet, 192 ;
embassy to Madrid, 200 ;
embassy to Spain, 199 ;
Heptaméron , 191 ;
patronage of Lefèvre, 203 ;
patronage of Marot, 233 n;
regency of, 10 ;
Robertet's aid to, 9 ;
sponsorship of religious dissent, 172 , 181 , 189 , 190
Marguerite de Navarre. See Marguerite d'Angoulême
Marguerite de Valois, 316 , 450 -51
Marie de Guise, 352
Marillac, Charles de (archbishop of Vienne), 242
Marillac, Gabriel, 218
Marillac family, 33 ;
immigration to Paris, 44
Marion, Simon, 29 , 33
Marie, Claude de, 22
Marot, Clément:
banning of works, 209 ;
Blason du bonnet carré , 155 ;
exile of, 193 ;
François's protection of, 191 ;
translation of Psalms, 233 n
Marriage:
advancement by, 54 -55, 144 ;
clandestine, 54 ;
of clergy, 299 ;
importance to society, 125 -26;
inheritance of
property in, 53 -54;
Protestant, 258 ;
tenderness in, 124
Martel, Charles, 406 n
Martin, Victor, 308 , 309 , 455 n;
on Christophe de Thou, 347 , 348 , 349 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 , 461 ;
on Trent decrees, 346 , 442 , 453 , 454 , 456
Martineau, Nicolas, 218
Mary Stuart (queen of Scots):
depiction as martyr, 352 ;
Du Vair's funeral oration for, 345 ;
marriage to François II, 238
Masparault, Pierre, 402
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 185 , 307 , 327 ;
causes of, 317 , 320 ;
Parlement's role in, 317 -18, 484 ;
Protestant accounts of, 317
Maugis, Édouard, 81 , 82 , 403 , 439 ;
on abuse of rules, 83 n;
on Bull of Gregory XIV, 398 ;
on duc of Mayenne, 405 ;
on edicts of pacification, 314 ;
on François Olivier, 19 ;
on Henri II, 223 -24;
on L'Estoile, 483 -84;
on Lizet's disgrace, 220 n;
on succession of Henri IV, 406
Mayenne, duc de:
accommodation with Henri IV, 393 , 407 ;
advisers of, 385 ;
in l'affaire Brisson, 392 -93;
appointments to Parlement, 392 ;
arrest of printers, 416 ;
arrival in Paris, 376 , 377 ;
billets of exile, 421 n;
departure from Paris, 429 ;
in Estates of the League, 402 , 404 ;
and Jean Le Maistre, 423 ;
L'Estoile on, 378 , 420 ;
as lieutenant général, 377 -78, 383 , 386 ;
loss of authority, 400 , 406 , 423 ;
and papal legate, 420 -21, 422 , 424 ;
relations with politiques , 423 -24;
revocation of commands, 435 ;
satires on, 415 -16;
in Satyre Ménippée , 427 , 429 ;
and Spanish Ambassador, 405 , 422 , 423 , 424 -25, 484 ;
in succession debate, 409 ;
and Third Party, 393 , 398
Mayenniste faction:
Parisian bourgeoisie in, 340 ;
parlementaires in, 387 ;
struggle with Sixteen, 378 , 386 , 390 , 392 , 402
Mayer, C. A., 192 -93
Meaux: group of, 182 , 198 , 212 ;
surrender to Henri IV, 416 -17
Medici, Alexander de' (cardinal of Florence), 443
Meditations (Savonarola), 152
Melanchthon, Philip, 194
Mémoires-Journaux (L'Estoile), 37 , 38 , 119 , 140 -43;
l'affaire Brisson in, 390 -91;
anti-Spanish sentiment in, 388 ;
Armada in, 366 -67;
Christophe de Thou in, 139 ;
clergy in, 350 , 351 ;
comparison with Registers, 483 ;
contents of, 100 -104;
country life in, 152 ;
crime in, 145 -46;
Day of the Barricades in, 187 n, 358 -60;
Edict of Nantes in, 446 , 447 -48, 449 n;
ephemera in, 103 , 141 , 142 ;
Estates of the League in, 404 ;
executions in, 141 ;
greed in, 131 , 132 , 143 ;
Guise assassinations in, 372 -74;
Henri III in, 322 -23, 342 , 371 ;
Henri IV in, 142 , 379 -80, 409 -10, 436 ;
Henri IV's coronation in, 427 ;
Henri IV's military victories in, 385 ;
ligueur preachers in, 388 -89;
literary quality of, 484 ;
manuscripts of, 39 ;
Mary Stuart in, 352 ;
miracles in, 142 ;
money in, 131 -32;
Montaigne in, 485 ;
Paris League in, 38 , 39 n, 332 , 334 -35;
parlementaire ideals in, 140 -41;
Parlement of Châlons in, 396 ;
Parlement of Tours in, 436 -37;
Pierre (I) Séguier in, 138 -39;
pourparler de Paris in, 255 -56;
proverbs in, 143 ;
reliability of, 483 -85;
religious belief in, 168 -70;
siege of Paris in, 386 ;
Sixteen in, 375 , 380 , 391 -92, 462 ;
sorcery in, 146 ;
superstition in, 141 -42, 171 , 350 ;
on table of Madame de Montpensier, 350 ;
Trent decrees in, 444 n.
See also L'Estoile, Pierre de
Mendoza, Diego de, Duke of Feria (Spanish ambassador), 382 n, 387 , 408 , 409 ;
departure from Paris, 432 ;
and duc de Mayenne, 405 , 422 , 423 , 424 -25, 484 ;
and Jean Le Maistre, 423 ;
truce with politiques , 405
Merchants:
banishment by Henri IV, 439 ;
in Bureau de Ville, 46 ;
libraries of, 99 ;
mobility of, 130 -31;
in Paris League, 393 ;
place in bourgeoisie, 461
Mercuriales : of 1557, 465 ;
of April (1559), 234 , 235 ;
of June 10 (1559), 20 , 22 , 235 -37, 476
Mésalllance , 54 , 128
Mesmes, Henri de, 28 ;
intellectual leadership of, 104
Mesmes, Jean de, 237
Mesnager, Jean, 198
Mesnard, Paul, 108
Mesnard, Pierre, 470 -71
Metz, siege of, 223 , 227
Michelet, 325
Midi:
First Civil War in, 283 ;
Protestant robins in, 261 -62
Mignons (royal favorites), 322 , 323 , 334 , 351
Minard, Antoine:
assassination of, 239 , 258 ;
as président, 235 , 237
Miracles, false, 142
Miron, François de, 369
Mobility, sixteenth century, 54 -55, 130 -31, 469
Molé, Édouard, 376 , 407 ;
and Henri IV's entry into Paris, 430 ;
reinstatement in Parlement, 438 ;
on succession of Infanta Isabella, 405 -6
La Monarchie de France (Seyssel), 12 , 63 -64;
influence of, 61 ;
nationalism in, 93
Monarchy, Aristotelian concept of, 340
Monarchy, French:
Achille de Harlay on, 343 -44;
after Hundred Years War, 7 ;
centralization of, 274 ;
Christian ideal of, 161 , 411 -12;
creditors of, 156 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 460 ;
encroachment on constitution, 66 ;
in history of Gaillard, 114 -15;
importance of religion to, 63 -64, 417 -18;
indivisibility of, 60 , 121 ;
juridical basis of authority, 76 ;
limitations on, 62 , 63 -65, 78 , 80 ;
Loisel on, 139 ;
obligations of, 67 , 68 , 411 , 471 ;
papal authority over, 415 ;
parlementaire loyalty to, 243 , 319 , 322 n, 421 , 460 , 469 ;
power to establish courts, 86 n;
relationship with papacy, 175 ;
remission of crimes, 148 ;
respect for customary law, 66
Monarchy, French Bourbon:
absolutism of, 59 , 419 ;
rise to power, 39
Monarchy, French Capetian, 163 , 385
Monarchy, French Valois:
additions to Parlement, 41 ;
attendance at Parlement, 73 , 294 -95;
collaboration with parlementaire religious policy, 207 -14;
conflicts with Parlement, 67 -77, 195 -201;
feuds within, 186 ;
innovations of, 73 ;
itinerant court of, 44 ;
limitations on, 59 ;
overthrow of, 331 ;
policy toward heresy, 19 , 181 , 182 , 196 , 205 , 207 -13;
religious beliefs of, 190 , 191 -92;
religious policy of, 191 , 205 , 207 , 231 , 290 ;
special commissions of, 48 ;
value of service to, 49 -50;
venality of, 9 , 47 , 71
Monluc, Blaise de, 262
Monluc, Jean de (bishop of Valence), 251 ;
at Fontainebleau council, 242 ;
religious views of, 294 ;
service to Catherine de Médicis, 278
Montaigne, Michel de, 18 ;
L'Estoile on, 485 ;
and Pasquier, 33 ;
on religious belief, 166 ;
on religious dissent, 169 -70;
on succession of Henri IV, 370 -71
Montcontour, victory of, 321
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, 473
Monthelon, François de, 137 , 368
Montmirail, Étienne, 218
Montmorency, Anne de (constable), 213 ;
capture in First Civil War, 283 ;
imprisonment by Spanish, 232 ;
influence of, 220 , 238 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 235 -36;
in siege of Metz, 223 , 227 ;
sons of, 259 , 260 n;
in Triumvirate, 251 , 277 ;
violence against Protestants, 270
Montmorency, François de. and publication of Edict of January, 265 ;
religious beliefs of, 284 ;
and religious unrest in Paris, 268 -69, 313
Montmorency, house of, 21 ;
and L'Hôpital, 326 ;
patronage of Pasquier, 27 ;
protégés of, 22 ;
religion of, 260 ;
rivalry with Bourbons, 428
Montmorency-Damville, Henry of, 260 n
Montpensier, duc de, 285 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 359
Montpensier, Madame, 360 ,
preachers of, 379 ;
tableau of, 350 , 352 , 353 , 432
Moral values, of parlementaires, 120 n, 134 -35
More, Thomas, 109 ;
on war, 157
Morin de Cromé, Louis, 390 , 416 n
Morosini, Francesco, 365 -66
Morvilliers, Jean de (bishop of Orléans), 242
Mos gallicus , 93
Motherhood, as career, 54
Mouchy, Antoine de, 237
Muret, Marc-Antoine, 110
N
Naples, Kingdom of, 227
Nationalism, French: cultural, 67 , 115 -116, 117 -18;
and Gallicanism, 458 ;
"juridical," 91 -94, 107 ;
of Reformed Church, 174 ;
religious, 162 ;
threat of ultramontanism to, 115
Naudé, Gabriel, 165
Neapolitans, in Paris, 431
Neo-Stoicism, 109 -12;
of Du Vair, 470
Netherlands:
Huguenots in, 317 ;
struggle against Spain, 111
Neuilly, Étienne, 338 , 392 ;
in Estates of the League, 402
Neuschel, Kristen, 23 n
Nevers, Louis de Gonzague (duc de):
debts of, 341 ;
embassy to Clement VIII, 414 -15, 423 ;
support of Henri IV, 411 , 458 -59
Nevers, Madame de, 414
Nez d'Argent, Sergeant, 260 , 281
Nicodemites, 166 -67, 294 , 481 ;
parlementaires among, 167 , 248 , 294 , 327
Nîmes, Protestant assemblies in, 262
Nobility:
clientage relationships with parlementaires, 121 , 229 , 462 ;
competition among, 274 ;
m conversion crisis, 411 -12;
and ennobled robins , 50 ;
heretics among, 217 ;
humanism of, 95 ;
importance to robins , 50 , 128 -29, 144 ;
inbreeding among, 55 ;
libraries of, 99 ;
power over robins , 46 ;
Protestants among, 258 , 285 ;
rapprochement with gens de robe , 36 , 50 ;
religious polarization of, 251 ;
rural, 50 -51;
support of League truce, 407 ;
theories of superiority of, 129
Nogaret, Guillaume, 161
Norris, Sir Henry, 315
O
O, seigneur d', 359 , 434 , 436
Oestreich, Gerhard, 111 , 112
Olivier, François, 73 ;
career of, 18 -19;
fall from presidency, 45 , 221 ;
on Parlement, 74 , 84 ;
as spokesman of Parlement, 16
Olivier, Jacques, 18
Olivier family, 45
Olivier-Martin, François:
on corporatist France, 80 ;
on customary law, 24 , 66 n
Oppède (président of Parlement of Aix), 213
Order of St. Michael, 263
Ordinance of Blois (1579), 86 n, 148 ;
registration of, 346 -47
Ordinances of Moulins, 309
Ordonnances , 7 ;
addition to customary law, 66
Orgeuil , 155 -56
Orléans:
fall to Henri IV, 424 ;
heresy cases in, 217 ;
immigrants from, 44 ;
struggle with Burgundy, 7 , 40
Orléans, Louis d', 392 n;
as avocat du roi, 376 ;
Banquete du Conte d'Arete , 415 n;
in Estates of the League, 402 ;
as ligueur , 389 , 391
Orth, Myra, 190
Ory, Matthieu, 208
Ossat, Arnauld d' (bishop of Bayeux), 442 , 454 ;
on Edict of Nantes, 451
Oysel, Henri de Clutin (sieur d'), 301
P
Pacification of Amboise (1563), 184 , 186 , 283 , 299 ;
effect on Parlement, 289 -98, 476 ;
modifications to, 315 ;
Parlement's attitude toward, 286 , 314 -16;
terms of, 285 , 287 ;
ultra-Catholic attack on, 289 .
See also Civil War, First
Padua, law school of, 98
Palais de Justice, ceremonies at, 75
Pamphleteers: Huguenot, 59 , 186 -87, 238 ;
of League, 326 ;
on succession of Henri IV, 379 , 410 , 415
Pamphlets, collections of, 101 -2
Papacy:
alliance with Guise faction, 227 ;
Avignon, 116 , 136 ;
Bull of 1585, 115 ;
controversy with Parlement, 393 -98;
Gallican view of, 88 ;
Henri IV's accommodation with, 441 -43, 450 ;
in Henri IV's conversion crisis, 412 ;
imperial power of, 88 , 89 ;
during Paris League rebellion, 332 , 365 ;
relations with Sixteen, 387 , 388 ;
struggle with Venice, 104 , 118 , 152
Papal legates:
instructions to ligueur preachers, 414 -15;
opposition of Sixteen to, 366 ;
reception in France, 90 ;
registration of, 90 , 443 .
See also Sega, Filippo, cardinal de Plaisance (papal legate)
Pape, Guy, 99
Papiste (epithet), 252 , 253
Paris:
autos-da-fé, 212 , 215 ;
bourgeoisie of, 339 , 341 ;
Christophe de Thou's service to, 24 -25;
Conciergerie, 148 , 217 , 313 , 364 ;
crime in, 141 ;
diocesan council of, 201 ;
exemption from Edict of January, 271 , 277 ;
expulsion of Protestants from, 281 ;
Henri IV's appeal to, 416 ;
Henri IV's reduction of, 398 , 430 -33, 436 ;
Henri IV's siege of, 386 -87, 398 -99;
municipal militia of, 278 , 313 , 420 -21;
persecution in, 238 -39, 241 , 271 -72;
plague (1562), 282 ;
pourparler de , 255 -56;
Protestant assemblies in, 232 -33, 251 , 254 , 255 , 261 ;
public welfare in, 132 ;
Reformed Church in, 184 , 227 ;
reli-
Paris (continued )
gious unrest in, 251 -52, 268 -73, 276 , 431 ;
residences of parlementaires in, 149 ;
royal entries into, 76 , 215 , 430 -32;
separation from French society, 462 ;
Spanish troops in, 382 n, 387 , 405 , 424 n, 431 ;
struggle for municipal government of, 386 , 391 ;
support of Guise faction, 277 ;
toleration of dissent in, 228 ;
vandalism in, 181 , 202 .
See also Bureau de Ville; Hôtel de Ville; Parlement of Paris
Paris Cordeliers, 346 -37
Paris League. See League, Paris
Parlementaires:
accusations of heresy against, 272 , 281 ;
arrest by Henri II, 237 -38;
arrest by League, 375 -76;
attitude toward crime, 144 -49;
attitude toward heresy, 2 , 184 , 185 , 195 -200, 394 , 464 ;
attitude toward money, 45 , 131 -33;
attitude toward wives, 126 , 127 ;
avenues of advancement for, 44 -48;
as bon catholique françois , 466 ;
bourgeois origins of, 461 , 465 ;
on cause of civil wars, 78 -79;
clemency toward criminals, 147 -48, 217 ;
commissions on heresy, 182 , 196 -98, 201 , 211 , 214 ;
compromise with League, 37 ;
constitutionalism of, 61 , 64 , 65 n, 79 , 257 , 275 , 296 , 318 -19;
costume of, 75 , 76 , 137 , 463 ;
country houses of, 150 , 155 ;
decline in standards of, 136 -37;
defense of Gallicanism, 1 , 20 , 52 , 60 , 67 , 80 , 88 , 89 , 174 , 195 , 302 , 415 , 456 n, 459 -61;
diplomatic activity of, 48 , 49 ;
disdain of violence, 156 -57, 431 ;
distinction between nobility and, 467 ;
education of, 95 -98;
effect of Wars of Religion on, 175 ;
enmity with Duprat, 164 , 178 , 180 , 195 -96;
ethical codes of, 134 -35;
exile of, 37 , 421 , 438 , 481 ;
family alliances of, 55 , 120 , 134 , 468 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 -7;
on Guise assassinations, 372 ;
hanging in effigy, 283 , 284 n;
Henri II's trial of, 237 -38;
heresy trials of, 245 -46;
in history of Gaillard, 115 ;
humanism of, 95 -96, 105 ;
ideals of, 134 -41, 144 , 463 -68;
image of, 153 -59;
image under Henri IV, 464 -65;
importance of family to, 120 , 465 -66;
intellectual interests of, 105 -19;
intermarriage among, 55 , 120 ;
libraries of, 95 , 98 -104;
life-style of, 149 -53;
ligueurs among, 338 , 392 , 397 , 402 , 434 , 438 , 461 ;
moral values of, 120 n, 134 -35;
model, 137 -40, 184 , 467 ;
murders by Paris League, 340 , 390 -91, 408 , 439 ;
networks of, 128 ;
Nicodemites among, 167 , 248 , 294 , 327 ;
opposition to Concordat of Bologna, 12 , 20 n, 67 , 90 , 137 , 164 , 176 , 177 -80, 195 , 319 , 477 ;
opposition to League, 388 ;
orgeuilleux , 156 ;
patronage of, 4 , 13 , 17 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 37 , 121 , 229 , 462 ;
in peace negotiations of First Civil War, 284 ;
police report of 1562 on, 218 , 288 -89;
poverty of, 131 ;
pragmatism of, 469 ;
privileges for, 52 n;
in procession of St-Medard, 272 , 285 -82;
profession of faith, 272 , 281 , 289 -90, 291 , 293 ;
religious orthodoxy of, 196 -99, 209 , 244 , 272 , 479 ;
religious traditions of, 1 -2, 11 , 161 -72, 478 -82;
residences of, 149 -50;
response to religious dissent, 175 -77, 187 ;
role in social system, 475 , 482 ;
on royal commissions, 48 -49;
on rural nobles, 50 -51;
in Satyre Ménippée , 428 ;
scholarship of, 104 -5;
security in office for, 81 ;
seigneurial life of, 150 , 156 ;
socioeconomic differences among, 34 -35;
status of, 155 n;
support for Paris League, 52 n;
support of Henri IV, 58 , 482 ;
suspension by François I, 200 ;
trials of (1559), 245 -46;
ultra-Catholics among, 11 , 12 , 209 ;
"unreliables" among, 290 -91;
view of antiquity, 107 ;
view of history, 112 -19;
view of Parlement, 80 -87;
view of society, 120 ;
wealth of, 50 , 131 -32, 153 ;
wives of, 124 -27;
work ethic of, 134 , 144 , 156 .
See also Elites, robin;Praticiens ; Présidents, of Parlement
Parlementaires, mainstream, 2 , 11 ;
attitude toward heresy, 478 -79;
attitude toward ultramontanism, 479 ;
Baillet's leadership of, 195 ;
compromises with constitutionalism, 469 ;
constitutionalism of, 94 ;
on fall of the Paris League, 392 ;
following First Civil War, 290 ;
religious differences among, 177 , 229 , 238 ;
on religious persecution, 230 ;
repression of heresy, 221 ;
resistance to League, 481 ;
spokesmen for, 11 -40, 74 , 86 , 164 , 195 , 464 , 469 ;
support of monarchy, 319 ;
and ultras, 291
Parlementaires, politiques : of 1577, 446 ;
attack of League on, 374 -76;
definition of, 325 -28;
divisions among, 36 ;
Du Vair as,
38 , 109 ;
following defeat of League, 403 ;
Henri IV's support of, 409 ;
historians among, 115 , 116 ;
murder of, 390 -91, 408 , 439 ;
during Paris League rebellion, 333 ;
royalist, 62 ;
support of Henri IV, 381 -82, 482 ;
violence against, 413 -14
Parlement of Aix, 211 , 213
Parlement of Bordeaux, 8 , 30 ;
anti-Huguenot sentiments of, 286 ;
"private" justice in, 298 ;
Protestants in, 261
Parlement of Brittany, 16
Parlement of Châlons, 388 ;
arrêt of June 28,1593, 392 , 394 -96;
return to Paris, 434 , 437 n;
status of, 430
Parlement of Dijon, 130 , 287 , 481 n;
and Edict of Nantes, 449
Parlement of Paris:
on arrêt of Parlement of Châlons, 396 ;
arrêts of, 65 , 211 , 213 , 215 ;
in assembly of St-Germain, 264 ;
attack of Parisian curés on, 349 -50, 409 ;
attitude toward crime, 144 -49;
autonomy of, 8 ;
during Avignon papacy, 136 ;
on banishment of governor Belin, 422 -23;
banning of books, 189 , 194 ;
cardinal de Lorraine's pressure on, 230 ;
career patterns in, 55 , 439 , 462 -63, 469 , 472 ;
in ceremonial processions, 75 -76;
as check on monarchy, 65 , 68 -69, 77 , 80 ;
chronological list of, 9 n;
clerics in, 15 , 35 , 41 , 47 -48, 57 , 80 -81, 466 ;
as coguardian of constitution, 72 ;
collaboration with royal religious policy, 207 -14;
commission on blasphemy, 196 -99;
commission to Catherine de Médicis, 267 -68, 269 ;
comparison with Roman senate, 66 , 105 , 157 ;
composition of, 7 -9, 35 , 462 ;
condemnation of arrêt of Châlons, 392 n;
under Charles IX, 295 -98, 318 -20;
Condé's récusations against, 280 -81, 282 ;
conflicts with L'Hôpital, 23 n, 241 , 243 , 309 -10, 476 ;
conflicts with Louise de Savoie, 72 , 177 , 195 -201, 208 ;
conflicts with papacy, 393 -98;
conflicts with Valois monarchy, 67 -77, 195 -201, 318 -20;
confrontation with papal legate, 420 , 422 ;
conservatism of, 54 ;
constitutionalism of, 60 -61, 74 , 79 , 257 , 275 , 296 , 298 , 318 -19, 406 ;
control of rural areas, 145 ;
corruption in, 143 ;
cost of office in, 143 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 361 -62;
defense of fundamental law, 68 -69, 403 ;
defense of jurisdictions, 83 -84, 198 , 221 ;
defense of orthodoxy, 196 -99, 209 ;
dissidents m, 290 -91, 292 ;
divisions within, 11 , 91 , 137 , 184 , 229 ;
domination by elites, 10 -11, 41 ;
on edict of April 19 (1561), 252 -54;
and Edict of Nantes, 4 , 91 , 188 , 382 n, 444 -49;
effect of international crises on, 229 ;
effect on social cohesion, 463 ;
election to, 7 -8;
entry to bishopric from, 81 ;
entry to royal service from, 35 ,
exile of Michel Gaillard, 255 ;
family alliances in, 55 , 120 , 134 , 468 ;
in First Civil War, 283 ;
fragmentation after Edict of Amboise, 289 -98;
under Fran-çois I, 9 -10, 41 , 80 -82, 89 , 176 , 200 -201, 205 ;
generations within, 11 -12;
under Henri I, 176 ;
under Henri II, 176 , 182 , 223 -25, 229 -34;
under Henri III, 321 , 342 ;
Henri IV's alliance with, 188 ;
Henri IV's return and, 433 -36;
Henri IV's rehabilitation of, 403 , 434 -40, 464 ;
heresy in, 287 -88;
Huguenots in, 243 , 445 ;
on iconoclasm, 202 ;
ideological factions within, 208 -9, 222 , 234 , 277 ;
immigrants in, 41 -45;
independence of, 68 ;
institutional history of, 7 , 41 n;
intellectual leadership of, 104 -5;
internal discipline of, 20 , 465 -66;
investigation of tumult of St-Medard, 272 ;
judicial independence of, 460 ;
jurisdiction over heresy, 207 -8, 219 , 225 , 235 , 241 , 248 , 252 -54;
League attacks on, 374 -76, 388 ;
length of service in, 81 , 439 , 462 -63;
life members of, 35 , 36 , 469 ;
ligueur , 376 , 388 , 397 , 403 , 434 ;
and lit de justice of 1563, 295 -96;
under Louis XI, 7 -8, 42 -43;
under Louis XII, 8 -9;
loyalty to monarchy, 243 , 421 , 460 ;
and majority of Charles IX, 295 -98;
and Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 186 n, 317 -18, 484 ;
Mayennistes in, 387 , 392 ;
members of Paris League in, 338 ;
nationalism of, 91 -94;
oath to League (1589), 419 ;
opposition to Chambre Ardente, 221 -22;
opposition to Edict of January, 188 , 257 , 264 -69, 319 ;
opposition to Inquisition, 231 -32;
opposition to Ordinances of Moulins, 309 ;
opposition to Reformation, 229 n;
opposition to Trent decrees, 4 , 31 n, 441 , 443 , 452 -55;
Parisians in, 8 , 40 -42;
under Paris League, 340 , 363 ;
parlementaire view of, 80 -87;
partage votes in, 297 ;
place in royal bureaucracy, 461 ;
ple-
Parlement of Paris (continued )
nary sessions of, 209 , 222 , 247 ;
police investigation of, 218 , 288 -89;
praticiens in, 139 , 153 , 154 , 439 , 464 , 469 ;
on presidial courts, 86 n;
procedural manuals of, 3 ;
procureurs' strike, 342 -43;
proliferation of offices in, 12 , 34 , 41 n, 83 , 224 ;
prosecution of religious dissent, 89 , 173 ;
prosopography of, 3 ;
Protestants in, 480 ;
protest of evocations, 77 , 84 , 197 , 198 ;
protest of religious unrest, 251 ;
public confidence in, 60 ;
qualifications for, 83 , 466 -67;
and regency of Catherine de Médicis, 176 , 223 , 244 , 277 , 289 ;
registers, 2 -3, 180 , 218 , 220 , 288 ;
registers, secret, 269 , 311 ;
registration of Concordat of Bologna, 177 ;
registration of Edict of 1539, 207 ;
registration of Edict of Amboise, 240 , 285 , 287 , 294 , 298 ;
registration of Edict of January (1562), 294 ;
registration of Edict of July (1561), 257 ;
registration of Edict of La Rochelle, 321 ;
registration of Edict of Nantes, 91 , 188 , 445 , 449 ;
registration of Edict of Union, 365 ;
registration of edicts, 68 , 69 , 71 , 224 , 231 , 252 , 298 , 435 , 477 -78;
registration of edicts of pacification, 297 ;
registration of Ordinances of Blois, 346 -47;
registration of papal legates, 90 , 443 ;
registration of Trent decrees, 77 ;
relationship with Estates General, 85 -87;
relations with Condé, 276 , 278 -81, 284 ;
religious traditions of, 4 ;
remonstrance in Lizet affair, 220 ;
remonstrance of 1489, 76 ;
remonstrance to duc de Mayenne, 425 ;
remonstrance to François I, 81 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197 ;
as representative of monarchy, 76 , 83 ;
ressort of, 24 , 48 , 66 ;
on return of religious exiles, 253 -54;
right of remonstrance, 68 , 69 , 290 , 318 ;
and rise of League, 4 , 331 , 338 -39;
role in corporate state, 80 ;
role in Edict of July, 257 , 291 -92;
role in national defense, 92 ;
roll under Henri IV, 438 ;
and royalist parlements in exile, 430 , 434 ;
royal patronage of, 42 ;
"school of," 26 n;
Sixteen's attacks on, 188 , 385 , 389 -90;
social controls on, 465 ;
sorcery cases in, 146 ;
sources of authority, 86 ;
as spokesman of politiques , 408 ;
struggle over jurisdictions, 84 -87, 297 -98, 460 ;
in succession debates, 407 -9;
on succession of Infanta Isabella, 406 ;
support of Gregory XIV, 397 ;
support of Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, 91 , 195 , 196 , 346 , 453 ;
supremacy over provincial parlements, 298 ;
système de semestre, 224 ;
treatment of heresy, 19 -20, 194 -98, 210 -11, 230 , 233 -34;
trial of Berquin case, 176 , 193 -94, 199 -203;
trial of Condé, 275 -76;
and tumult of St-Médard, 260 ;
wages of, 437 .
See also Early generation; Crisis generation; Later generations; Parlementaires, mainstream; Parlementaires, Présidents; Transitional generation
Parlement of Rennes, 480
Parlement of Rouen, lit de justice (1563), 87 , 295 , 296 n, 297 , 311
Parlement of Toulouse, 8 ;
"private" justice in, 298 ;
Protestants in, 261 ;
treatment of dissidents, 286 ;
treatment of heresy, 206
Parlement of Tours, 394 n;
arrival in Paris, 436 -37;
denunciation of Bull of Gregory XIV, 397 ;
establishment by Henri III, 378 , 388 ;
Jacques Faye in, 31 ;
return to Paris, 413 , 434 ;
status of, 430
Parlements, regional:
autonomy of, 144 ;
dissidents in, 286 ;
Parlement of Paris's supremacy over, 298 ;
registration of Edict of Nantes, 449 ;
registration of edicts, 221 , 298
Parricide, 145
Pasquier, Étienne:
advice to parents, 56 ;
on Battle of Ivry, 385 ;
as bibliophile, 27 ;
career of, 27 -28;
in chambre mi-partie, 261 n;
character of, 140 ;
circle of, 105 ;
on civil wars, 273 ;
compromises with constitutionalism, 470 ;
correspondence of, 26 , 33 , 122 , 151 , 258 ;
on Counter-Reformation, 115 ;
on country life, 151 ;
death of, 333 n;
defense of University of Paris, 476 ;
depiction as Socrates, 93 , 116 , 135 ;
on duc d'Épernon, 354 ;
early life of, 26 -27;
on Edict of January, 269 ;
on Edict of Nantes, 449 ;
on Estates General, 371 ;
on ethnic rivalry, 129 ;
exile of, 332 ;
on family, 122 ;
friends and associates, 33 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 n, 459 ;
on Guise assassinations, 372 -73;
on Henri III, 343 , 368 ;
on Henri IV, 379 , 381 , 382 ;
on Henri IV's conversion, 413 ;
on Henri IV's return to Paris, 433 ;
interest in corporatism, 79 ;
Loisel on, 135 -36, 137 , 139 ,
463 ;
on Machiavelli, 116 ;
as mainstream spokesman, 464 ;
on marriage, 124 -25, 126 ;
models of, 3 , 136 ;
on monarchy, 68 ;
on nobility, 130 ;
on Paris League, 335 -36;
during Paris League rebellion, 332 , 362 , 364 -65;
on Paris preachers, 351 ;
on Parlement, 87 ;
patrons of, 27 ;
on Pax Romana, 107 ;
poetry of, 107 -8;
on politiques , 328 ;
on pourparler de Paris , 255 -56;
on Protestant assemblies, 258 ;
rejection of superstition, 118 , 171 ;
on role of Parlement, 86 , 345 ;
on royal domain, 68 , 69 ;
on Sixteen, 462 ;
study of history, 112 , 117 ;
on Third Civil War, 315 -16;
on wealth, 131 ;
on women, 127 -28;
work on customary law, 48 .
Works:
Advis aus français , 413 ;
Catéchisme des jesuites , 414 ;
Recherches de la France , 27 , 65 , 86 , 108 , 117 , 119 ;
Traité des Privileges et Libertez de l'Eglise gallicane , 29
"Pasquier, ou le Dialogue des avocats du Parlement du Paris." See "Dialogue des avocats du Parlement du Paris" (Loisel)
Pasquier, Pierre, 122
Pasquier, Theodore, 433
Pasquils (satires), 323 , 367
Passerat, Jean, 428 n
Patin, Guy, 100
Paul III (pope), 17 ;
liberal views of, 182 , 205 , 206 , 210 ;
suppression of reform, 183
Paul IV (pope), 184 ;
alliance with Henri II, 227
Paul V (pope), 445
La paulette , 82
Pax Romana, 107
Pays de Vaud, heresy in, 211 -12, 213 , 214
Peace of Augsburg (1555), 164 , 226
Peace of Monsieur (1576), 186 , 315 n;
concessions to Huguenots in, 324 ;
ineffectiveness of, 337 .
See also Edicts of pacification
Peace of Vervins (1598), 33
Pellevé, cardinal, 422 ;
in Satyre Ménippée , 427
Pepin III (king of Franks), 162
Pericles, 126
Perjury, punishment for, 145
Perreuse (prévôt des marchands), 363
Perrot, François, 28
Persecution of heresy, 211 -12, 282 ;
failure of, 310 ;
mainstream parlementaires on, 230 ;
in Paris, 238 -39, 241 , 271 -72
Petit, Guillaume, 15
Philip II (king of Spain):
alliance with Guise faction, 339 , 367 ;
and Antoine de Bourbon, 264 ;
and Council of Trent, 184 ;
marriage to Élisabeth de Valois, 238 n, 303 , 307 ;
marriage to Mary Tudor, 227 ;
recall of Chantonnay, 302 ;
relations with Catherine de Médicis, 302 -3;
support of Paris League, 339 , 367 , 405 ;
support of Sixteen, 1 -2, 407 ;
support of ultra-Catholics, 185 , 186 , 251 ;
war with France, 223 , 226
Philip IV, the Fair (king of France), 348 ;
conflict with papacy, 91 , 161
Philip Augustus (king of France), 237
Philip Emanuel (duke of Savoy), 238 n, 369
Philosophy, ancient:
parlementaires' study of, 108 -11
Picardy: Condé's following in, 274 ;
heresy cases in, 217 ;
parlementaires from, 43
Picot, Jean, 267 n, 272
Pinterel, Oger, 218
Pisany, marquis de, 444
Pithou, Pierre:
authorship of Satyre Ménippée , 428 n;
career of, 31 ;
circle of, 105 ;
defense of Salic law, 407 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 n;
in Henri IV's rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;
interest in corporatism, 79 ;
Libertés de l'Église gallicane , 31 ;
as mainstream spokesman, 464 ;
on Pax Romana, 107 ;
purge of Parlement registers, 434 ;
in "scholarly Pléiade," 28 ;
study of history, 112
Pitt, William, 83
Pius IV (pope), 301 ;
death of, 309
Place Maubert, 360
Plaisance, Filippo Sega (cardinal de). See Sega, Filippo, cardinal de Plaisance (papal legate)
Pléiade, 108 , 473
—, "scholarly": members of, 28 , 33 ;
nationalism of, 93 -94;
Pasquier in, 135 ;
view of history, 112
Pluralism. See Religious toleration
Plutarch, 84
Poillot, Denis, 48 ;
in Berquin case, 203 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49
Poissy, Colloquy of, 257 , 276 , 293
Poitiers:
cultural life of, 30 ;
grands jours in, 16 , 127 ;
heresy cases in, 217
La police :
as check on monarchy, 64 , 77 ;
in customary law, 64
Politiques :
alliance with ligueurs , 340 , 418 -19;
definition of, 325 -28;
in Estates of the League, 402 -3;
exile of, 421 ;
Gallicanism of, 471 ;
goals of, 402 ;
in liguer Paris, 399 ;
opposition to League, 352 , 386 ;
Parlement as spokesman for, 408 ;
Pasquier on, 328 ;
as political party, 260 ;
political satires on, 416 ;
political theories of, 326 , 472 ;
public support for, 398 ;
relations with duc de Mayenne, 423 -24;
on religion of Henri IV, 382 ;
robins among, 464 ;
Sixteen's attacks on, 391 -92;
support of Henri IV, 378 .
See also Parlementaires, politique
Poncet family, 45
Poncher, Étienne, 47
Poncher family, 96
Portents, reporting of, 145 -46
Possevino, Antonio, 308 , 414
Pot, Philippe, 99 , 196 , 198
Potier, Nicolas, 375
Poulain, Nicolas, 338 , Procès-verbal of, 356 -57
Pourparler de Pans , 255 -56
Poussemothe, Jean de, 39
Poverty:
parlementaire attitude toward, 131 -33;
as threat to order, 133
Powis, Jonathan, 456 , 457 , 458
Pragmatic realism, 116 n, 469
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), 20 n, 88 , 459 ;
benefices under, 178 , 179 ;
and Concordat of Bologna, 178 ;
copies of, 99 ;
Parlement's adherence to, 91 , 195 , 196 , 346 , 453
Praticiens , 139 , 154 , 464 ;
banishment by Henri IV, 439 ;
compromises with constitutionalism, 469 ;
function in Parlement, 153
Pratique , codifications of, 153
Preachers:
anti-Protestant, 259 , 466 ;
Catherine de Médicis's ban on, 308 ;
on Guise assassinations, 374 ;
of Madame Montpensier, 379 ;
Parlement's complaint of, 429 ;
Pasquier on, 351 .
See also Clerics; Curés, Parisian
Preachers, ligueur :
on arrêt of Parlement of Châlons, 396 ;
banishment by Henri IV, 432 n, 438 ;
on conversion of Henri IV, 412 ;
on edicts of toleration, 443 ;
on Estates of the League, 404 -5;
instructions of papal legate to, 414 -15;
l'Estoile on, 388 -89;
student audience of, 431 ;
in succession debate, 410
Preachers, Protestant:
arrest of, 270 ;
ban on preaching, 276 ;
exile of, 266 , 268
Pré-aux-Clercs, Protestant services at, 233 , 254 , 255
Pre-réforme , French, 189 ;
end of, 205 ;
participants in, 192
Présidents, of Parlement:
attack on wives of, 424 ;
backgrounds of, 42 ;
clerics among, 81 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 358 ;
on Edict of Nantes, 445 ;
increase in numbers, 155 ;
in royal processions, 75
Prévost, Bernard, 303
Prévost, Jean, 126 , 177 ;
in Berquin case, 203 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197
Prévost, Jean (curé of St-Séverin), 350 , 353 ;
in Sixteen, 338
Prévost, Nicolas, 48
Printers: arrest of, 416 ;
marks of, 62 n
Printing, censorship of, 204 , 213 , 416 , 433
Procureurs , 151 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 358 ;
under Henri IV, 438 ;
strike (1586), 342 -43;
taxation of, 319 , 345
Profession of faith, 476 ;
for gens de robe , 268 ;
for parlementaires, 272 , 281 , 289 -90, 291 , 292 , 293 ;
Taber on, 290
Property, 52 -54;
effect on political alignment, 419 ;
entail of, 53 ;
non-Catholic transactions of, 268 ;
violation of Huguenots,' 251 , 253 , 254 ;
women's control of, 123
Protestantism: in French provinces, 261 ;
work ethic of, 134 .
See also Calvinism
Protestants:
acceptance of Henri IV, 441 ;
in circle of Pasquier, 33 ;
civil rights of, 395 ;
expulsion from Paris, 281 ;
under Henri IV, 395 , 396 ;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 142 ;
Montmorency's violence against, 270 ;
in Parlement, 480 ;
persecution of, 238 -39, 241 , 271 -72, 282 ;
possession of firearms, 258 ;
public assemblies of, 232 -33, 251 , 254 , 255 , 258 -59, 262 , 264 , 316 ;
in public office, 449 , 450 ;
in registers of Parlement, 3 ;
robin , 219 .
See also Heretics; Huguenots; Religious dissenters; Religious reformers
La Puce (Loisel), 30
Purgatory, doctrine of, 152 , 172 ;
Henri IV on, 412
Pybrac Du Faur, Guy, 138 , 299
Q
Quélain, Michel, 290
Quélain, Nicolas, 87
R
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
S
Sacramentaires, 193 , 201 ;
clemency for, 205 ;
punishment of, 247 ;
Suriano on, 292
Sadoleto, Jacopo, 167 n
Saint-André, François de:
affiliation with ultras, 277 , 291 ;
career of, 46 , 81 ;
in Chambre Ardente, 215 -16;
on commission to Catherine de Médicis, 269 ;
and Edict of January, 267 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 279 , 280 ;
as president, 183 , 235 ;
purchase of Budé's library, 215 ;
in trial of parlementaires, 237 , 245
Saint-André, Marshal:
in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;
death of, 283 ;
in Triumvirate, 251 , 277
Sainte-Marthe, Scévole de, 21 , 335 n, 362
Sainte-Marthe family, 33
Saint-Gelais, Louis de, 299 , 370
Salic law, 39 ;
attempts to annul, 115 ;
Du Vair's defense of, 92 , 332 , 391 , 406 , 407 , 408 -9;
as fundamental law, 61 ;
Giesey's study of, 63 n;
Henri IV's claim under, 418 ;
importance to parlementaires, 79 , 434 ;
justification of, 62 ;
moderates' defense of, 340 ;
Spanish threat to, 469 ;
ultramontane threat to, 479 .
See also Fundamental law
Salmon, J. H. M., 65 n, 110 , 139 ;
on Civil Wars, 274 , 321 -22;
on duc de Mayenne, 393 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 n;
on L'Estoile, 484 ;
on L'Hôpital, 310 , 311 , 312 ;
on Paris League, 420 ;
on Protestant parlementaires, 480 ;
on Sixteen, 461 ;
Society in Crisis , 326
Saluces, marquisate of, 369
Sancy, Harlay de, 33
Sanguin, Nicole, 211
Santa Croce, Prospero di, 271 , 277 , 303 -4;
on Catherine de Médicis, 307 -8;
on Pacification of Amboise, 285 -86;
on Trent decrees, 302
Sapin, Jean-Baptiste, 282 , 288
Sarpi, Paolo, 104
Satires, political, 415 -16;
on Henri III, 323 ;
pasquils , 323 , 367
Satyre Ménippée, ou vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne , 102 , 425 -26, 470 ;
authors of,
31 , 428 n;
circulation of, 415 , 427 ;
contents of, 427 -29
Saulx-Tavannes family, 286
Sauqueville, Guillaume de, 161
Savoie, Louise de. See Louise de Savoie
Savoy, war with, 451
Sawyer, Jeffrey, 472
Scaliger, J.-C., 28
Schneider, Mical H., 96 ;
on parlementaire moral values, 120 n, 153 , 154 , 464 ;
on work ethic, 134
Scholarship:
legal, 105 , 464 ;
patronage of, 105 ;
Renaissance, 106
Scotland, alliance with France, 227 , 228
Seaulieu, merchants of, 130
Second League. See League, Paris
Sega, Filippo, cardinal de Plaisance (papal legate), 414 , 449 n;
confrontation with Parlement, 420 , 422 ;
on conversion of Henri IV, 442 ;
departure from Paris, 444 ;
and duc de Mayenne, 420 -21, 422 , 424 ;
in Satyre Ménippée , 427
Séguier, Antoine, 405 , 438 ;
as ambassador to Venice, 444
Séguier, Louis:
interrogation of group de Meaux , 198 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197
Séguier, Pierre (I), 16 ;
accusations of heresy against, 272 , 281 ;
avoidance of arrest, 375 ;
career of, 20 -21;
death of, 188 , 325 ;
on épices , 224 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 , 305 ;
on introduction of Inquisition, 229 -30;
leadership of, 183 , 224 , 234 , 320 , 479 ;
liberalism of, 248 ;
and Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 318 ;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 237 ;
as model parlementaire, 138 , 184 ;
as moderate leader, 218 , 476 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 280 ;
opposition to Inquisition, 241 ;
opposition to ultra faction, 20 ;
and profession of faith, 291 ;
rivalry with de Thou, 224
Séguier, Pierre (II), 30
Séguier family, 20 ;
inheritance of office, 224
Seigneurial life, 120 n, 128 , 150 -51
Selve, Jean de, 9 ;
in Berquin case, 200 , 202 , 203 ;
death of, 181 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49 , 199 ;
leadership of mainstream, 195 ;
at lits de justice , 72 ;
mainstream views of, 74 ;
as président, 16 , 179 ;
remonstrance with Louise de Savoie, 179 , 196 ;
repudiation of Treaty of Madrid, 92 ;
royalism of, 77
Semonneux movement, 399 , 400 , 410 ;
propaganda of, 406
Senault, Pierre, 378 , 484
Senlis, fall to Henri IV, 380
Sens, benefice of, 178 , 180 , 195 , 200
Servin, Louis, 438 , 446 ;
on Gallicanism, 456 n
Seyssel, Claude de: career of, 15 -16;
constitutionalism of, 77 ;
diplomatic missions of, 49 ;
on independence of Parlement, 68 , 77 ;
as mainstream spokesman, 14 ;
La Monarchie de France , 12 , 61 , 63 -64, 93 ;
on obedience to law, 66 ;
on parlementaire ideals, 134 ;
political theory of, 60 , 469
Sherman, J. H., 55
Sixteen (faction), 1 -2;
attacks on Parlement, 375 , 385 , 389 -91, 413 -14, 462 , 481 ;
attacks on politiques , 391 -92;
check of moderates of, 340 ;
on d'Aubray, 422 ;
during Day of the Barricades, 361 ;
defeat of, 398 ;
defectors from, 391 ;
defiance of duc de Mayenne, 378 ;
in Estates of Blois, 373 ;
flight from Paris, 392 ;
founders of, 338 , 371 ;
goals of, 321 , 340 ;
on Guise assassinations, 372 -73;
investigation of Parisian magistracy, 387 ;
leadership of, 387 ;
magistrates in, 461 ;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 37 , 380 ;
Nicolas Poulain on, 356 -57;
opposition to papal legate, 366 ;
parlementaire attacks on, 188 , 385 , 424 ;
parlementaire leadership under, 320 ;
Philip's support of, 1 -2, 407 ;
in reduction of Paris, 430 ;
relations with foreign powers, 387 , 388 , 391 ;
robins in, 480 ;
social composition of, 338 -39;
struggle with Mayennistes, 386 , 390 , 392 , 402 ;
and succession of Henri IV, 334
Sixtus V (pope):
during Paris League rebellion, 365 -66;
promulgation of Trent decrees, 349 ;
and succession of Henri de Navarre, 29 , 90 -91, 349 , 394 , 395
Skinner, Quentin, 64 , 65
Sleidan, Jean, 113
Smith, Sir Thomas, 284 , 285 , 309
Society of Jesus:
assassination plots by, 414 ;
effect of Gallicanism on, 459 ;
founding of, 183 ;
under Henri IV, 438 ;
influence on League, 36 ;
legal status of,
Society of Jesus (continued )
184 ;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 142 ;
parlementaire opposition to, 441 , 476 ;
popular opposition to, 388 ;
priesthood for, 210 ;
readmission to France, 441 , 455 ;
suit against University of Paris, 27 ;
teaching privileges of, 222 ;
threat to nationalism, 115
Socrates, 108 , 144 ;
in history of Gaillard, 113 ;
Pasquier as, 93 , 116 , 135
Solomon, Howard, 120 n, 132 -33
Solon, 354
Soman, Alfred, 148 , 484 ;
on sorcery, 120 n, 146 -47, 217
Sorbonne:
articles of faith, 209 -10, 211 ;
condemnation of Luther, 189 ;
on edicts of toleration, 443 ;
Index of, 182 , 189 , 194 ;
oath to Holy Union, 387 ;
on papal supremacy, 209 ;
policy of repression, 181 , 192 ;
submission to Henri IV, 437 ;
ultramontanism of, 192 .
See also University of Paris
Sorcery, 120 n;
decriminalization of, 147 ;
linkage with heresy, 146 , 217
Sovereignty. See Monarchy; Royal domain
Spain:
aid to Paris League, 336 , 367 , 405 ;
alliance with Guise faction, 227 , 367 ;
Dutch struggle against, 111 ;
influence on League, 36 ;
negotiations with Henri IV, 443 ;
relations with Sixteen, 387 , 388 ;
role of religion in, 426 ;
sorcery cases in, 147 ;
suppression of heresy, 175 , 426 ;
troops in Paris, 382 n, 387 , 405 , 424 n, 431 ;
war with France, 223 , 226 , 232 .
See also Philip II (king of Spain)
Spifâme, Jacques, 293 n
St-André, curé of. See Aubry (curé of St-André)
St-Benoît, benefice of, 178 , 180 , 195 , 200
St-Denis, conversion ceremony at, 412 -13
St-Germain, assembly of (1562), 262 -63
St-Jacques, curé of, 399 , 409
St-Medard:
procession of, 272 , 281 -82;
tumult of, 259 , 265 , 272
Stocker, Christopher, 9 n;
on autonomy of children, 57 ;
on avenues of advancement, 46 ;
on Baillet family, 13 ;
on benefices, 47 ;
on Parisian robins , 42 ;
on venality, 47
Stoicism, 37 , 470 ;
influence on parlementaires, 108 -11.
See also Neo-Stoicism
Stone, Lawrence, 121 n
St-Quentin, battle of, 232
Strasbourg, reform movement at, 173 , 182
Strayer, Joseph R., 91 , 161 -62
Strozzi, Filippo, 254
St-Séverin, day of, 350 , 357
Stuart, Mary. See Mary Stuart (queen of Scots)
Sully, Maximillien de Béthune (duc de), 451
Supernatural, in Mémoires-Journaux , 145 -46
Superstition: Council of Trent on, 300 ;
in Mémoires-Journaux , 141 -42, 171 , 350 ;
Pasquier's rejection of, 118 , 171
Suresnes, conference at, 404 , 406
Suriano, Michele, 250 n;
on Edict of July, 292 -93;
on parlementaire dissidents, 291
Sutherland, N. M., 186 n, 317 ;
on edict of Chateaubriand, 222 ;
on Edict of Romorantin, 241 ;
on Edict of St-Germain, 316 ;
on Fourth Civil War, 321 ;
on Huguenots, 324 ;
on Triumvirate, 250 n;
on Valois's religious policy, 191 , 205 , 207 , 231
Sutto, Claude, 459 -60
Switzerland, Lutheranism in, 204 , 227
T
Taber, Linda L., 238 n, 255 , 259 ;
on Edict of January, 267 ;
on police report of 1562, 218 , 288 -89;
on profession of faith, 290 ;
study of heresy, 287 -88
Tableau of Madame Montpensier, 350 , 352 , 353 , 432
Tacitus, admiration for, 110 , 111 , 469
Taille , exemption from, 52
Tamboneau, Jean, 381
Tardif, Jean, 390 n
Tavel, François, 43 ;
in Chambre Ardente, 218
Tavel, Jean, 197
Tavel family, 43
Taxation, of procureurs, 319 , 345
Tax farmers, 132
Teall, Elizabeth, 120 n, 151
Thermidor mayenniste , 392
Thérouenne, Jean de, 230 , 280
Third Estate:
imprisonment of members, 376 ;
opposition to Trent decrees, 413 ;
Parisian, 324 , 402 ;
support of truce, 407
Third Party, Catholic, 395 ;
and duc de Mayenne, 393 , 398 ;
factions in, 402 ;
rise of, 388
Thomas, François, 267 n
Thompson, Martyn P., 62 , 63
Thou, Adrien de, 268
Thou, Augustin de:
arrest by League, 375 ;
in Parlement of Châlons, 394 , 396
Thou, Christophe de, 16 ;
in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;
associates of, 25 ;
on Bureau de Ville, 24 -25;
circle of, 37 ;
La Coutume de Vermandois , 23 ;
death of, 188 , 325 , 333 n, 348 ;
defense of constitutionalism, 406 ;
defense of Gallicanism, 164 ;
and Edict of Amboise, 289 ;
on Edict of January, 266 ;
at Fontainebleau consultations, 303 , 305 ;
on Henri III, 337 ;
interest in Stoicism, 108 , 109 ;
on Journée de St-Séverin, 350 ;
leadership of crisis generation, 19 , 22 -23, 25 , 104 , 183 , 224 , 320 , 476 , 479 ;
L'Estoile on, 139 ;
ligueur accusations against, 336 -37;
and majority of Charles IX, 295 -96;
at mercuriale of June (1559), 237 ;
as model parlementaire, 37 , 138 -39, 184 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 279 , 280 ;
opposition to edicts of toleration, 347 ;
opposition to papacy, 307 ;
opposition to Trent decrees, 346 ;
and Pacification of Amboise, 285 ;
on parlementaire ideals, 134 ;
as président, 287 , 291 ;
and profession of faith, 291 ;
redaction of customary law, 24 , 48 , 66 , 80 ;
on registration of edicts, 69 ;
rivalry with Séguier, 224 ;
on royal commissions, 48 ;
scholarly reputation of, 24 ;
at seance of Charles IX, 295 ;
in trial of Condé, 243 n, 275 ;
and trials of 1559, 247
Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 26 , 104 ;
on Achille de Harlay, 437 ;
on arrest of parlementaires, 375 -76;
in Chambre de Justice, 30 ;
on Christophe de Thou, 25 , 235 , 336 ;
on civil wars, 273 ;
compromises with constitutionalism, 470 ;
on Day of the Barricades, 360 -61;
on Edict of Nantes, 446 , 448 ;
exile of, 332 ;
on François de Monthelon, 368 ;
on Gallicanism, 459 ;
on Guise assassinations, 372 ;
on Henri IV, 435 ;
on Henri IV's conversion, 413 ;
on Henri IV's entry into Paris, 432 -33;
on Henri IV's religious policy, 394 -96, 450 ;
on Henri IV's succession, 380 ;
on League curés, 354 -55;
on Mary Stuart, 353 ;
on Morosini, 366 ;
on Paris League, 332 , 333 , 337 -38;
as politique , 327 , 333 , 381 ;
on Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, 91 ;
and registration of Trent decrees, 452 , 453 ;
on rehabilitation of Parlement, 434 -35, 436 ;
scholarship of, 56 ;
service to Henri III, 365 ;
on Sixteen, 462 ;
and statutes of University of Paris, 456 ;
support of Henri IV, 77 , 378 , 381 ;
on Tumult of St-Médard, 259 .
Works: Histoire universelle , 103 , 333 , 375 -76, 434 -35, 436 , 448 ;
Mémoires , 370 -71, 450 , 452
Thou, Nicolas de, 56 , 427
Thou family, 26 ;
inheritance of office, 224 ;
legal scholarship of, 105 ;
in Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 318
Throckmorton, Nicholas, 236 , 256 , 258 ;
on Antoine de Bourbon, 264 ;
on First Civil War, 284
Tigonville family, 218
Toleration. See Religious toleration
Tombeaux (epitaphs), 102
Torture, in Chambre Ardente, 216 , 217
Toulouse, 8 ;
Civil War in, 271 .
See also Parlement of Toulouse
Touraine, heresy in, 211
Tournelle (chamber), 19 ;
Harlay in, 22 , 234 ,
under Henri II, 209 ;
heresy cases in, 20 , 183 , 217 , 221 ;
moderates in, 234
Tournon, cardinal de, 222 , 250 ;
in assembly of St-Germain, 263
Tours. See Parlement of Tours
Transitional generation (of Parlement), 12 ;
ideological factions within, 209 , 475 ;
leadership of, 183 ;
spokesmen of, 16 ;
ultra-Catholics in, 218
Transubstantiation, 209
Treaty of Cambrai (1529), 205
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), 227 , 238
Treaty of Crépy (1544), 208 , 211
Treaty of Edinburgh (1560), 228
Treaty of Madrid (1526), 92 , 199
Treaty of Troyes (1420), 75
Treaty of Vervins, 188
Trent decrees:
of 1604, 40 ;
of 1607, 4 ;
duc de Guise on, 369 -70;
and Edict of Nantes, 450 ;
French resistance to, 90 , 301 ;
Henri IV's policy on, 442 , 444 , 451 -56;
opposition of Parlement to, 4 , 31 n, 441 , 443 , 452 -55, 476 ;
opposition of Third Estate, 413 ;
in Ordinances of Blois, 346 ;
registration by Parlement, 77 ;
special commission on, 369 .
See also Council of Trent
Trials of 1559, 245 -46;
readmission following, 250 , 476
Triumvirate:
members of, 251 ;
negotiations with Condé, 279 -80;
parlementaire affiliations with, 277
Tronson, Jean, 205 n;
in Chambre Ardente, 218
Tronson family, 9
Troyes, parlementaires from, 43
Truce of Vaucelles (1556), 227
Tudor, Mary, 227
Tulleu, Jacqueline de, 126
Tulleu family, 14
Tumult of St-Médard, 259 ;
investigation of, 265 , 272
Turnèbe, Adrien: circle of, 37 ;
influence on Loisel, 29 ;
influence on Pasquier, 27
U
Ultra-Catholics:
and fundamental law, 62 ;
in Grand' Chambre, 234 ;
under Henri II, 214 , 228 ;
Henri II's support of, 19 ;
Henri III's support of, 347 ;
on heresy, 209 ;
Lizet's support of. 23 ;
moderates' opposition to, 20 ;
offensives of, 235 -44;
parlementaires among, 11 , 12 , 209 , 479 ;
Philip II's support of, 185 ;
Pierre (I) Séguier's opposition to, 21 ;
threat to Henri III, 324 ;
in transitional generation, 218 ;
triumphs in 1562, 271 , 277
Ultramontanism, 1 -2, 108 ;
and conversion crisis, 412 ;
of Holy League, 174 ;
mainstream attitudes toward, 478 -80;
propaganda of, 478 ;
revival of, 244 ;
of Sorbonne, 192 ;
threat to French nationalism, 115 , 184 , 476 ;
threat to Henri IV, 441
University of Paris:
defense of Gallicanism, 460 ;
under Henri IV, 457 ;
Pasquier's defense of, 476 ;
redrafting of statutes, 456 ;
reform of, 48 ;
suit against Jesuits, 27 .
See also Sorbonne
Ursins, Jean Jouvenal des, 156 -57;
defense of Gallicanism, 164 ;
as model parlementaire, 136 , 467
Ursins, Louis Jouvenal des, 47
V
Valette, Nogaret de la (duc d'Épernon), 354 -55, 361
Valla, Lorenzo, 106
Vandalism, of icons, 181 , 202 , 475
Vassy, Huguenots massacre at, 270
Vatable, François, 103
Veau, Jean, 447 , 448 n
Venality, 83 ;
Charles Giullart's opposition to, 77 ;
effect on Parlement, 12 , 34 , 53 , 136 ;
François I's use of, 9 , 47 , 82 ;
of Henri II, 223 , 224 ;
of Henri III, 343 ;
Loisel on, 116 ;
Louis Le Caron's attack on, 32 ;
Maugis on, 81 n;
of parlementaire elites, 58 ;
"private," 9,46 , 82 ;
relation to corruption, 53 ;
satirization of, 155 -56;
of Valois monarchy, 9 , 47 , 71
Vendôme, cardinal de, 458 -59
Venice:
affiliations with Gallicans, 457 -58;
Henri IV's embassy to, 444 ;
struggle with papacy, 104 , 118 , 152
Verjus, André, 48 ;
in Berquin case, 194 ;
in commission on blasphemy, 196 ;
interrogation of group de Meaux , 198 ;
investigation of parlementaires, 272 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197
Versoris, Nicolas, 203
Vices, attribution to lawyers, 156
Villars, Jerome de (archbishop of Vienne), 455
Villeroy, Chancellor:
as adviser to Mayenne, 385 ;
in Day of the Barricades, 359 ;
dismissal of, 367 ;
in rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;
as royal spokesman, 362 n, 365 ;
and Trent decrees, 451 , 452 , 454
Viole, Claude:
at mercuriale of June (1559), 236 ;
remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197 ;
in trial of Condé, 234 n
Viole, Guillaume, 267 ;
in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;
in negotiations with Condé, 279 , 280 ;
and profession of faith, 291
Viole, Jacques (I):
attempted arrest of, 237 ;
career of, 25 , 26 ;
in trial of Condé, 275
Virtue:
L'Estoile on, 140 ;
Loisel on, 139 ;
sixteenth-century ideas of, 134
Vivanti, Corrado, 450
Voltaire, 473
Vraye Histoire , 235 , 236 ;
parlementaires in, 245 ;
on trials of 1559, 246
La Vraye Methode qu'on doit tenir en la lecture de l'histoire (Droit de Gaillard), 112 -15;
authors cited in, 113
W
War, parlementaire attitude toward, 157
War of Parma, 157
War of the Three Henries, 372 n
Wars of Religion, 273 ;
Adrien (II) Du Drac
in, 21 ;
causes of, 274 ;
disruption of constitution, 60 ;
divisions of Parlement during, 91 , 229 ;
effect on royal power, 78 ;
historiography of, 1 ;
politiques in, 325 . See also Civil Wars
Wealth, importance to parlementaires, 131 -32, 153
Weiss, Nathanaël, 211 , 219 ;
on Chambre Ardente, 214 , 215 , 216 , 218
Welfare, public, 132 -33
White scarves, 431 , 433 n
Widows, 120 n;
at court of Catherine de Médicis, 126 -27;
rights of, 121 n
Witnesses, suborning of, 147
Wives:
education of, 125 ;
of parlementaires, 124 -27;
property rights of, 123 ;
rights of, 121 n;
role m family, 123 ;
virtues of, 126
Wolfe, Michael, 410 ;
on André Maillard, 460 ;
on duc de Nevers, 411 ;
on Gallicanism, 412 , 471 -72;
on succession of Henri IV, 417 , 459
Wycliffe, John, 245
Y
Yardeni, Myriam, 92 , 94 , 421 ;
on nationalism, 421 , 422
Z
Zamet (banker), 452
Zwingli, Ulrich, 173 ;
popularity in France, 201 ;
Traité de la Vraye Religion , 196
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