Under the Ancien Régime of France, the Nobles of the Robe or Nobles of the Gown (French: noblesse de robe) were French aristocrats whose rank came from holding...

true of the greater reliance that was shown by the royal court on the noblesse de robe as judges and royal counselors. The creation of regional parlements...

letters") – those ennobled by the king's letters patent noblesse de robe ("nobility of the robe") – those holding certain official positions, such as maître...

Different principles of ennoblement can be distinguished: Noblesse de robe (nobility of the robe): person or family made noble by holding certain official...

numerous high positions in government) and of Marie de Maupeou (who came from a family of the noblesse de robe and who was famous for her piety and charitable...

service or merit, as in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries (see noblesse de robe), the old practice of denoting a noble with a territorial designation...

born at Mably, Loire into a family that belonged to the Noblesse de robe or Nobles of the Robe. This class formed the Second Estate whose rank derived...

the French the Treaty of Westphalia. He was an early member of the noblesse de robe in the service of the French state. Abel Servien was born at the château...

to a family ennobled in the sixteenth century as noblesse de robe, the eldest son of René Charles de Maupeou (1688–1775), who was president of the parlement...

town-dwelling members of the noblesse d'épée, or traditional aristocracy. Courtiers and representatives of the noblesse de robe (those who derived rank from...

de Pierre and Louis-Daniel de Montcalm, of the House of Montcalm, a family of the Noblesse de Robe of Nîmes, at the family residence, the Chateau de Candiac...

administrative apparatus – relying on old nobility, newer chancellor nobility ("noblesse de robe") and administrative professionals – replaced the feudal clientele...

to be known as the noblesse de robe ("nobility of the gown"), in contrast with the traditional aristocracy, known as the noblesse d'épée ("nobility of...

the sixteenth century as noblesse de robe : the house of Maupeou. He died on 4 April 1775. He is the father of René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou....

the noblesse de robe, of the aristocracy (including the Court) and even the noblesse d'épée". In 1911 Jean Lemoine made known the inventory of Abel de Cyrano's...

Within the nobility, there were rigid divisions between the noblesse de robe, or Nobles of the robe, whose rank derived from holding judicial or administrative...

‘Napoleon's shadow’ (l'ombre de Napoléon in French). Duroc was born in Pont-à-Mousson on 25 October 1772, to a family of the noblesse de robe from Gévaudan. His...

ecclesiastical or military career. Her maternal family belonged to the noblesse de robe. Her father served as governor of the Castle of Amboise where she occasionally...

also an amateur mathematician, was a local judge and member of the "Noblesse de Robe". Pascal had two sisters, the younger Jacqueline and the elder Gilberte...

the National Horticultural Society of France. His family were of the noblesse de robe, his father a master councillor at the Cour des Comptes. The Héricart...

the noblesse de robe, Malesherbes was educated for the legal profession. The young lawyer's career received a boost when his father, Guillaume de Lamoignon...

raising controversy among the parliamentary noblesse de robe, mindful of their threatened prerogatives. The lit de justice, as it was revived in 1527, was...

ennobled by the king, constituting the noblesse de robe. The old nobility of landed or knightly origin, the noblesse d'épée, increasingly resented the influence...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the intendants were chosen from the noblesse de robe ("administrative nobility") or the upper-bourgeoisie. Generally, they...

was true of the greater reliance shown by the royal court on the "noblesse de robe" as judges and royal counselors. The creation of regional parlements...

Estate is traditionally divided into noblesse d'épée ("nobility of the sword"), and noblesse de robe ("nobility of the robe"), the magisterial class that administered...

prebends during the papal seicento or during the days of the French Noblesse de Robe. Alavi describes how state-derived rights over capital held by state...

Parlement evolved into a powerful magistrate, a member of the so-called noblesse de robe ("nobility of the gown"), with considerable judicial as well as administrative...

of the noblesse de robe, with ancestors such as Étienne Pasquier, he was destined for the legal profession and was educated at the Collège de Juilly near...

Lalande, the Hôtel de Lalande, one of the most beautiful townhouses in Bordeaux. Belonging to the "noblesse de robe", Raymond de Lalande used to possess...