Le Parlement de Paris au risque des archives: le parquet, le greffe, la cour

The work includes four items. A summary essay (63 pages), illustrated with an article file (186 pages) and books (2), depicts the research path, from Saint Simon's Mémoires' indexes and the doctorate on Chancellor d'Aguesseau, to the entry in the Paris Parliament's archives through the Prosecutor's and Deputy Prosecutor's documents, and the progress in that area by double-checking sources in the U series (documents collected by clerk's) and in the X series (the Court's memory). Additionally, the thesis (364 pages) covers the political and legal history of Paris Parliament's transfers (XV-XVIIIth century); it is based on an appendix (113 pages), i.e. the transcription of an unpublished journal (1720). The study starts with a definition of the phenomenon with a view to attempting a typology ; it then goes on to provide a detailed analysis of the five transfer episodes in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. It concludes that such events and the absolutism trend were similar.