Chapter 1.3.VII: Internecine
Background
Loménie concocts a plan to totally usurp the authority of the parlements by replacing them with a system of “Grand Bailliages” and “Plenary Courts”. These will be stillborn institutions, but the resulting fight will accelerate the Revolution.
Notes
et ne me parla plus de rien! “And don’t speak to me of anything else!”
Rivarol A French conservative and royalist writer
Linguet Another conservative. See Chapter 1.2.VIII above.
Boissy d’Anglas A member of the parlement and a political figure who would survive to the Empire. He wrote a biography of Malesherbes.
Rochet A vestment worn chiefly by abbots and bishops
a Printer’s Danae Danae was visited by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold
cockatrice Another term for a basilisk