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unusual facts about Parlement of Paris



Jean Crespin

In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend François Baudouin under the leading jurist and advocate Charles Du Moulin, and became himself advocate at the Parlement of Paris.


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Eustache de Refuge

His father was a member of both the Parlement of Brittany and the Parlement of Paris, and his mother and stepmother were both daughters of members of the Parlement of Paris.

In 1592 he acquired a position as a Conseiller of the Parlement of Paris, as part of the loyalist majority in Tours.

Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville

In 1721, he was counsel to the Parlement of Paris, in 1728 he was maître des requêtes, and ten years later was made president of the Great Council; although he had opposed the court in the Unigenitus dispute, he was appointed intendant of Hainaut in 1743.

Marie De Cotteblanche

She was daughter of Guy De Cotteblanche, a lawyer for the Parlement of Paris.

Matthieu Marais

Legal advocate at the Parlement of Paris, he was one of the luminaries of the bar during his times.