• The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (French: Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts) is an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of...
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    ancien régime eras were called ordonnances, the best known of which today is the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts. Ordonnance section of Government of France...
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    the origin of two laws, or decrees, concerning language: the Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts (1239), which says that every document in France should be...
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    Languages of Europe (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    linguistic diversity are illustrated by two French laws: the Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts (1539), which said that every document in France should be...
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    Élisabeth Labouret in Villers-Cotterêts. According to his French biographer Claude Ribbe, it is in the courtyard of Château de Villers-Cotterêts that the young...
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    the first ordonnances to guide its maintenance by foresters called sergents du roi, under the governor of royal châteaux of Villers-Cotterêts and of Vivières...
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    In 1539, in his castle in Villers-Cotterêts, Francis signed the important edict known as Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, which, among other reforms...
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    mandates, including Julien Sanchez in Beaucaire, Franck Briffaut in Villers-Cotterêts, and David Rachline in Fréjus. The alliance with the small party of...
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  • register became mandatory in France for baptisms with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts signed into law by Francis I of France on August 10, 1539, then for...
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    9th, 2017). (fr) Rapport au Président de la République relatif à l'ordonnance du 3 juin 2019. (fr) Ordonnance du 3 juin 2019 portant diverses dispositions...
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    were repleted, the articles 110 and 111 of the 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts being the oldest still in use in the French legislation. The term...
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    complied several days later. On 4 September an edict established at Villers-Cotterêts declared that houses used for covert Protestant meetings were to be...
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    remain an administrative and legal language until the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (1539) prescribed the use of French in all judicial acts, notarized...
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    1530s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    executed, including Spain's General de Sarmiento. August 15 – King Francis I of France issues the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêt, that places the whole of France...
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    variety of spellings for the name of the town. In 1539 the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts specified that French was to be used in official documents. The current...
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