Parlement

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Ancien Régime
Structure
Estates of the realm Great Officers Maison du Roi Estates General Assembly of Notables Crown lands Provinces Parlements Taille Gabelle Seigneurial system Peasantry
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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]