Paris
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also in the atlas: Paris the figure
the French Court
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
City used as the hypothetical place where punishment for a foreign crime is imagined to occur.
The place of punishment can certainly be no other, than that where the crime was committed;
it was even in the times of the greatest licentiousness, that this unfortunate madman was burnt at Paris, in the year 1663.
Who would believe that, in the year 1673, in the most brilliant period of the kingdom of France, the advocate-general, Omer Talon, did in full parliament express himself, on the subject of a young lady named Canillac, in the following words:
The Rights of War and Peace
French capital where Grotius was joined by his wife during his exile.
From Antwerp he took refuge in France, where he arrived in April, 1621, and was joined by his faithful wife at Paris in the following October.
Accepting this appointment in 1634, Grotius arrived at Paris on his diplomatic mission on March 2d, 1635.
His quarrels concerning precedence, which rendered him an object of ridicule at the French Court, were not the only griefs of the ambassador of Sweden.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A French city whose merchants were regarded by Londoners as trade rivals alongside Rouen, York, and Lincoln.
It is true that the men of London were scarcely more jealous of the citizens of Rouen or Paris than of those of York or Lincoln;
” At Paris is preserved a copy of what looks like a charter granted by John, but irregular in its form.
Law in a Free State
The French capital, cited as the site of effective immersive language learning contrasted with schoolroom French instruction.
Did not six months in Paris do more for us than all the previous routine?
To what is due the mass of morbid and stimulating pabulum flung to our youth of both sexes in the shape of sensational novels, obscene pictures, dubious dramas, low music-hall performances, suggestive ballets, and meretricious entertainments of all sorts, with which London and Paris are deluged?
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
French capital cited as the setting of intense revolutionary hostility to the ancien régime and support for the Reign of Terror.
The privileges of the nobility had, before 1789, a far more real existence in La Vendée than in any great town, yet the peasants of La Vendée supported the throne and the altar when Paris supported or tolerated the Reign of Terror.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Paris, the original core territory of the French kingdom and site of the Royal Library.
and it is a significant circumstance that manuscripts of the true Salic Code, the Lex Salica of the Germans, appear to have been found in the Royal Library at Paris from the time of its first foundation.
Originally confined to a small territory round Paris, province after province became incorporated with it through feudal forfeitures, through royal marriages, or through the failure of lines of vassals even more powerful than the King to whom they owed allegiance.