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AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY.

A very happy personage in the year of grace 1482, was the noble gentleman Robert

d'Estouteville, chevalier, Sieur de Beyne, Baron d'Ivry and Saint Andry en la Marche,

counsellor and chamberlain to the king, and guard of the provostship of Paris.

It was already nearly seventeen years since he had received from the king, on November

7, 1465, the comet year, that fine charge of the provostship of Paris, which was

reputed rather a seigneury than an office.

Dignitas, says Joannes Loemnoeus, quoe cum non exigua potestate politiam concernente,

atque proerogativis multis et juribus conjuncta est.

A marvellous thing in '82 was a gentleman bearing the king's commission, and whose

letters of institution ran back to the epoch of the marriage of the natural

daughter of Louis XI. with Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon.

The same day on which Robert d'Estouteville took the place of Jacques de Villiers in

the provostship of Paris, Master Jehan Dauvet replaced Messire Helye de Thorrettes

Parliament, Jehan Jouvenel des Ursins supplanted Pierre de Morvilliers in the

office of chancellor of France, Regnault des Dormans ousted Pierre Puy from the

charge of master of requests in ordinary of the king's household.

Now, upon how many heads had the presidency, the chancellorship, the

mastership passed since Robert d'Estouteville had held the provostship of

It had been "granted to him for safekeeping," as the letters patent said;

He had clung to it, he had incorporated himself with it, he had so identified

himself with it that he had escaped that fury for change which possessed Louis XI.,

policy it was to maintain the elasticity of his power by frequent appointments and

More than this; the brave chevalier had obtained the reversion of the office for

his son, and for two years already, the name of the noble man Jacques

d'Estouteville, equerry, had figured beside

his at the head of the register of the salary list of the provostship of Paris.

It is true that Robert d'Estouteville was a good soldier, that he had loyally raised

his pennon against "the league of public good," and that he had presented to the

confectionery on the day of her entrance to Paris in 14...

Moreover, he possessed the good friendship of Messire Tristan l'Hermite, provost of

Hence a very sweet and pleasant existence was that of Messire Robert.

In the first place, very good wages, to which were attached, and from which hung,

like extra bunches of grapes on his vine, the revenues of the civil and criminal

civil and criminal revenues of the tribunals of Embas of the Chatelet, without

reckoning some little toll from the bridges of Mantes and of Corbeil, and the profits

on the craft of Shagreen-makers of Paris,

on the corders of firewood and the measurers of salt.

Add to this the pleasure of displaying himself in rides about the city, and of

making his fine military costume, which you may still admire sculptured on his tomb in

the abbey of Valmont in Normandy, and his

morion, all embossed at Montlhery, stand out a contrast against the parti-colored

red and tawny robes of the aldermen and police.

And then, was it nothing to wield absolute supremacy over the sergeants of the police,

the porter and watch of the Chatelet, the two auditors of the Chatelet, auditores

the sixteen quarters, the jailer of the Chatelet, the four enfeoffed sergeants, the

hundred and twenty mounted sergeants, with maces, the chevalier of the watch with his

watch, his sub-watch, his counter-watch and his rear-watch?

Was it nothing to exercise high and low justice, the right to interrogate, to hang

and to draw, without reckoning petty jurisdiction in the first resort (in prima

viscomty of Paris, so nobly appanaged with seven noble bailiwicks?

Can anything sweeter be imagined than rendering judgments and decisions, as

Messire Robert d'Estouteville daily did in the Grand Chatelet, under the large and

going, as he was wont to do every evening, to that charming house situated in the Rue

Galilee, in the enclosure of the royal palace, which he held in right of his wife,

the fatigue of having sent some poor wretch to pass the night in "that little cell of

the Rue de Escorcherie, which the provosts and aldermen of Paris used to make their

seven feet and four inches wide, and eleven feet high?"

And not only had Messire Robert d'Estouteville his special court as provost

and vicomte of Paris; but in addition he had a share, both for eye and tooth, in the

There was no head in the least elevated which had not passed through his hands

It was he who went to seek M. de Nemours at the Bastille Saint Antoine, in order to

conduct him to the Halles; and to conduct to the Greve M. de Saint-Pol, who clamored

provost, who did not love monsieur the constable.

Here, assuredly, is more than sufficient to render a life happy and illustrious, and to

deserve some day a notable page in that interesting history of the provosts of

Villeneuve had a house in the Rue des Boucheries, that Guillaume de Hangest

purchased the great and the little Savoy, that Guillaume Thiboust gave the nuns of

Clopin, that Hugues Aubriot lived in the Hotel du Pore-Epic, and other domestic

Nevertheless, with so many reasons for taking life patiently and joyously, Messire

Robert d'Estouteville woke up on the morning of the seventh of January, 1482, in

Whence came this ill temper? He could not have told himself.

Was it because the sky was gray? or was the buckle of his old belt of Montlhery badly

fastened, so that it confined his provostal portliness too closely? had he beheld

ribald fellows, marching in bands of four,

beneath his window, and setting him at defiance, in doublets but no shirts, hats

without crowns, with wallet and bottle at their side?

Was it a vague presentiment of the three hundred and seventy livres, sixteen sous,

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