Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt in Seventeenth-Century France: The Parlement of Aix, 1629-1659

383 Pages·1978·21.031 MB·English

by  Sharon Kettering

JUDICIAL POLITICS AND
URBAN REVOLT IN
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

JUDICIAL POLITICS AND
URBAN REVOLT IN
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANC
The Parlement of Aix, 1629-1659
SHARON KETTERING
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
Copyright © 1978 by Princeton University Press
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For My Father

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
List of Abbreviations χ
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
Chapter One
Provincial and Municipal Politics at Aix 13
Chapter Two
The Estates and the Habsburg War 51
Chapter Three
The Intendants of Justice and the Parlement 81
Chapter Four
The Governors and the Parlement 110
Chapter Five
The Cascaveoux Revolt of 1630 150
Chapter Six
The Opposition Party 182
Chapter Seven
The Opposition Parlementaires 216
Chapter Eight
The 1649 Revolt and the Fronde at Aix 251
Chapter Nine
The Saint Valentine's Day Revolt of 1659 298
Conclusion 329
Appendix I
Composition of the Aix Parlement, 1641-1649 337
Appendix Il
Municipal Budget of Aix 342
vii
Contents
Appendix HI
The Consuls and Assessors of Aix, 1629-1659 344
Bibliography 347
Index of Subjects 361
Index of Names 366
viii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE 1. Aix-en-Provence in the late seventeenth century, show
ing the quarters and the gates. Map by Karen Wood.
FIGURE 2. Floor Plan of the Palace of Justice at Aix-en-Provence
during the Ancien Regime. Sketched from a manuscript
in the Bibliotheque Mejanes at Aix, reproduced by
Jean-Paul Coste in La ville d'Aix en 1695: Structure
urbaine et societe, 2 vols, with a portfolio of maps
(Aix, 1870), A 34 in I, 231.
FIGURE 3. The Grand'Horloge and facade of the town hall of Aix-
en-Provence, seen from the square in front.
FIGURE 4. Grillwork entrance of the town hall of Aix-en-Pro
vence.
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
A.A.E. Archives des Affaires Etrangeres,
Paris
ADBR, Aix, Marseille Archives Departementales, Bouches
du Rhone
A.C., Aix Archives Communales, Aix
A.N. Archives Nationales, Paris
Annates: ESC Annates: Economies, Societes,
Civilisations, a journal published
quarterly by Librairie Armand
Colin, Paris
B.M. British Museum, London
B. Apt Bibliotheque Municipale, Apt
B. Inguimbertine Bibliotheque Inguimbertine,
Carpentras
B. Marseille Bibliotheque Municipale,
Marseille
B. Mazarine Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris
B. Mejanes Bibliotheque Mejanes, Aix
B.N. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Delib. Pari. "Deliberations du Parlement de
Provence," B. Mejanes Mss. 951—
954 (1629-1659)
EDB Les Bouches-du-Rhone,
encyclopedie departementale,
ed. Paul Masson, 17 vols.; Paris,
1913-1937
M. Arbaud Musee d'Arbaud, Aix
Orthography is a problem in studying seventeenth-century France.
Not only does the spelling differ from modern usage, but so do
accents, capitalization, and punctuation; all were a matter of great
personal freedom. Modern rules have been followed, and quota­
tions have been translated into modern English with an attempt
to retain some of the flavor of seventeenth-century French. Names
have been spelled as they were by their owners according to holo­
graph signatures, and for this reason some individuals appear un­
der their family names, some under their titles, some with or with­
out a partitive.
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