See also:

• CHATELET (from Med. Lat. castella)

CHATELET (from Med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. castella)  , the word, sometimes also writtencastillet,used in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France for a See also:

• BUILDING

building designed for the See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of an outwork or See also:

• GATE

gate, sometimes of See also:

• GREAT

great strength or See also:

• SIZE

size, but distinguished from the See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau, or See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle proper, in being purely defensive and not residential . In See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, before the Revolution, this word was applied both to a particular building and to the See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction of which it was the seat . This. building, the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• CHATELET (from Med. Lat. castella)

Chatelet, had been first a castle defending the approach to the Cite . Tradition traced its existence back to See also:

• ROMAN

Roman times, and in the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century one of the rooms in the great See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower was still called the chambre de Cesar . The jurisdiction was that of the provostship (prevote) and viscountship of Paris, which. was certainly of feudal origin, probably going back to the See also:

• COUNTS

counts of Paris . It was not till the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis that, with the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne Boileau, the provostship of Paris became a prevote en garde, i.e. a public See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office no longer put up to See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale . When the baillis (see See also:

• BAILIFF

BAILIFF AND BAILIE) were created, the See also:

• PROVOST (through O. Fr. prevost, mod. prevot, Lat. praepositus, set over, from praeponere, to place in front)

provost of Paris naturally discharged the duties and functions of a bailli, in which capacity he heard appeals from the seigniorial and inferior See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and its neighbourhood, keeping, however, his See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of provost . When under See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry II. certain bailliages became presidial jurisdictions(presidiaux), i.e. received to a certain extent the right of judging without See also:

• APPEAL

appeal, the Chatelet, the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of the provost of Paris, was made a presidial court, but without losing its former name . Finally, various tribunals See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to the city of Paris, i.e. courts exercising jurisdictions outside the See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law or corresponding to certain cours d'exception which existed in the provinces, were See also:

• UNITED

united with the Chatelet, of which they became divisions (chambres) . Thus the See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police made it the seat of his jurisdiction, and the provost of the Ile de France, who had the same criminal jurisdiction as the provosts of the marshals of France in other provinces, sat there also . As to the personnel of the Chatelet, it was originally the same as in the bailliages, except that after the 14th century it had some See also:

• SPECIAL

special officials, the auditors and the examiners of inquests . Like the baillis, the provost had lieutenants who were deputies for him, and in addition gradually acquired a considerable See also:

• BODY

body of ex officio councillors .

This last See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff, however, was not yet in existence at the end of the 14th century, for it is not mentioned in the Registre criminel du Chatelet (1389-1392), published by the Societe See also:

• DES

des Bibliophiles See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais . In 1674 the whole personnel was doubled, at the time when the new Chatelet was established See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side by side with the old, the two being soon after amalgamated . On the See also:

• EVE

eve of the Revolution it comprised, beside the provost whose office had become practically honorary, the lieutenant See also:

• CIVIL

civil, who presided over the chambre de prevote au See also:

• PARE, AMBROISE (1510-1590)

pare civil or court of first instance; the lieutenant criminel, who presided over the criminal VI . Icourt; two lieutenants particuliers, who presided in turn over the chambre du presidial or court of appeal from the inferior jurisdictions; a See also:

• JUGE, BOFFILLE DE (d. 1502)

juge auditeur; sixty-four councillors (conseillers); the procureur du roi, four avocats du roi, and eight substituts, i.e. deputies of the procureur (see See also:

• PROCURATOR (Lat. procurare, to take care of)

PROCURATOR), beside a See also:

• HOST

host of See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor officials . The See also:

• HISTORY

history of the Chatelet under the Revolution may be briefly told: the Constituent See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly em-powered it to try cases of lese-nation, and it was also before this court that was opened the inquiry following on the events of the 5th and 6th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1789 . It was suppressed by the law of the 16th of August 1790, together with the other tribunals of the ancien regime . (J . P .