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AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUDIENCE (from See also:Lat. audire, to hear)  , the See also:act or See also:state of See also:hearing, the See also:term being therefore transferred to those who hear or listen, as in a See also:theatre, at a See also:concert or See also:meeting . In a more technical sense, the term is applied to the right of See also:access to the See also:sovereign enjoyed by the peers of the See also:realm individually and by the See also:House of See also:Commons collectively . More particularly it means the ceremony of the See also:admission of ambassadors, envoys or others to an interview with a sovereign or an important See also:official for the purpose of presenting their See also:credentials . In See also:France, See also:audience is the term applied to the sitting of a See also:law See also:court for hearing actions . In See also:Spain, audiencia is the name given to certain tribunals which try appeals from See also:minor courts . The See also:Spanish See also:judges were originally known as oidores, hearers, from the Spanish oir, to hear; but they are now called ministros, or magistrados togados, robed judges, as the See also:gown of the Spanish See also:judge is called a toga . The audiencia pretorial, i. e. of the See also:praetor, was a court in Spanish See also:America from which there was no See also:appeal to the See also:viceroy, but only to the See also:council of the Indies in Spain . It is not the See also:custom in Spain to speak of audiencias reales, royal courts, but of the audiencias del Reino, courts of the See also:kingdom . In See also:England the Audience-court was an ecclesiastical court, held by the archbishops of See also:Canterbury and See also:York, in which they once exercised a considerable See also:part of their See also:jurisdiction, dealing with such matters as they thought See also:fit to reserve for their own hearing . It has been See also:long disused and is now merged in the court of See also:arches . AUDIFFRET-See also:PASQUIER, EDM$ ARMAND GASTON, Duc D' (1823-1905), See also:French statesman, was the See also:grand-See also:nephew and adopted son of See also:Baron See also:Etienne See also:Denis Pasquier . He was created See also:duke in 1844, and became auditor at the council of state in 1846 .

After the revolution of 1848 he retired to private See also:

life . Under the See also:empire he was twice an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the legislature, but was elected in See also:February 1871 to the See also:National See also:Assembly, and became See also:president of the right centre in 1873 . After the fall of See also:Thiers, he directed the negotiations between the different royalist parties to establish a See also:king in France, but as he refused to give up the tricolour for the See also:flag of the old regime, the project failed . Yet he retained the confidence of the chamber, and was its president in 1875 when the constitutional See also:laws were being See also:drawn up . Nominated senator under the new constitution, he likewise was president of the See also:senate from See also:March 1876 to 1879 when his party lost the See also:majority . Henceforth he was less prominent in politics . He was distinguished by his moderation and uprightness; and he did his best to dissuade See also:MacMahon from taking violent advisers . In 1878 he was elected to the French See also:Academy, but never published anything .

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