Parlement

The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics restricted Catholic education rights: this produced the emergence in Ireland of the celebrated, and mythologized, hedge schools.

French parlements , the sovereign court of Justice in Paris and thirteen other centres, were abolished by Louis XV .

French parlements , the sovereign court of Justice in Paris and thirteen other centres, were abolished by Louis XV .

The supposed nature of women, and the mere idea of having them in parliament , were mocked in a pamphlet: The House of Peeresses: or, Female Oratory.

Louis XVI consented to public demands and overuled the Parlement of Paris to double the size of the Third Estate.

The Estates-General met at Versailles for the first time since 1614.

The FrenchNational Assembly ordered all parlements to remain in recess.