Note 193 — Chapter IV

The Parlements were the highest judicial courts in France. By far the most important was the Parlement of Paris, whose jurisdiction extended over Picardie, Champagne, l’Ile-de-France, l’Orléanais, Maine, Touraine, Anjou, Poitou, Aunis, Berri, La Bourbonnais, Auvergne, and La Marche—almost the half of France. The other Parlements in the time of Henry II. were those of Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy, Dauphiné, Provence, Languedoc, Guyenne, and, up to 1559, Chambéry and Turin. The Parlements are frequently mentioned under the names of the towns in which they met; thus the Parlement of Normandy is called the Parlement of Rouen; that of Provence, the Parlement of Aix; that of Languedoc, the Parlement of Toulouse.