Parlement

This article is about the French Ancien Régime provincial appellate courts. For the post-Revolutionary and present-day parlement of France, see French Parliament. For the parlement of Canada, see Parliament of Canada. For the television series of the same name, see Parlement (TV series).
"Parlement de Dijon" redirects here. Not to be confused with Dijon Congress.

Territories assigned to the parlements and sovereign councils of the Kingdom of France in 1789
Coat of arms of pre-revolutionary Kingdom of France
Ancien Régime
Structure

Under the French Ancien Régime, a parlement (French pronunciation: [paʁləmɑ̃] ⓘ) was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the original and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. Though both the modern French term parlement (for the legislature) and the English word "parliament" derive from this French term, the Ancien Régime parlements were not legislative bodies and the modern and ancient terminology are not interchangeable.[1]

  1. ^ "Parlement | historical supreme court, France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-10-18.