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The Political Compromise and Opposition: the history of the Parlement of Paris

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2010, (23), pp.155~184
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

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ABSTRACT

This article aims to restructure the history of the Parlement of Paris in view of the relationship between the Parlement of Paris and the monarchical power on the basis of the recent studies. It underlines that their relationship, considered longtime just as conflicts and oppositions, has in fact originated from the symbiotic relation and compromise. In the history of French monarchy, in particular in the period of the political disorders, the Parlement of Paris that limited the arbitrary power of the government contributed to the reinforcement of the monarchical power by playing the role as the political stabilizer. This situation of singular equilibrium was achieved during the religious civil war and that structure had sustained until the eve of the French Revolution. The second point on which this article places emphasis is the political and social success and change of the parlementaires, members of the Parlement of Paris. The parlementaires grew up by purchasing official posts and became the elite group as the nobility of robe in process of the formation of absolute monarchy. Therefore, the principal cause of the opposition of parlementaires is to defend their rights and interests. But such an attitude of them didn’t stop on that stage. They spoke up for public dissatisfactions and presented the logic and the notion on their role. The opposition of the parlementaires originated the public opinion and caused the change of the notion of sovereignty from the mid-19th Century.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.