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    Toulouse, France. The first botanical garden in Toulouse was created in 1730 by the Société des sciences de Toulouse (Society of Sciences of Toulouse)...
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    modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately 42,700 square kilometers (16,500 square...
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  • Estate of the sénéchaussée of Béziers. Jean-Joseph de Mougins de Roquefort, (1742–1822), deputy of the Third Estate of the sénéchaussée of Grasse. François...
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    Regional Council of Occitania. The Hôtel de région, where the Regional Council of Occitania meets, is situated in Toulouse. The new administrative region includes...
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  • reparations in the Sénéchaussée de Toulouse [fr]. In 1599, he directed the construction work on the Saint-Cyprien bridge in Toulouse, which had begun in...
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    in Toulouse, where he had recently been made archbishop, and assumed the military powers of the lieutenant-generalcy of the sénéchaussée of Toulouse. In...
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    Sénéchaussée d'Armagnac was a main sénéchaussée created in 1473, with its seat in the town of Lectoure (Gers) and a territory larger than the province...
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  • Jean-Louis Castilhon (category Writers from Toulouse)
    et des sépultures de 1763 à 1795. Parish Notre-Dame du Jour in Toulouse where his father, Jean, was a prosecutor for the Sénéchaussée ; his mother was...
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  • the Parlement of Toulouse and became procurer for the sénéchaussée of Nîmes in 1785. An elector and from 1790 a member of Nîmes' Amis de la Constitution...
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    François I de Rouer de Pavie de Beccarie and Rose de Magnan. In addition to his baronie de Fourquevaux near Toulouse, Fourquevaux was the seigneur de Damiatte...
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    Lauragais has been alternately an archdeaconry, diocese, county and sénéchaussée (bailiwick). It has been divided up since the French Revolution into...
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    prosecution to clear the backlog of cases. The Catholic dominated parlement, sénéchaussée and vigurie (two lesser courts responsible for policing and security)...
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    droits seigneuriaux dans la sénéchaussée et comté de Lauragais (1553-1789): étude juridique et historique. Jean Ramière de Fortanier. Laffitte Reprints...
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    de Saint-Papoul (Carcassonne 1982) 28pp. Douaie, Célestin (1880). "État du diocèse de Saint-Papoul et sénéchaussée du Lauragais en 1573". Mémoires de...
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    register the edict in its intended form. Beneath the parlement of Dijon the sénéchaussée of Mâcon hesitated before registering the edict, apprehensive that it...
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    persuade the bishop of Comminges to take the reins of governor of Toulouse and the sénéchaussée, something he would refuse them several times, before finally...
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  • Louis' seventh son Charles). 1229: Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse cedes to the king the sénéchaussées of Nîmes–Beaucaire and of Béziers–Carcassonne (Treaty...
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    surrounding Julián Iñíguez de Medrano: the two Orcavellas By Andrés Gallego Barnes LESO. Toulouse Introducción a la Silva Curiosa de Julián de Medrano, por Mercedes...
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    Benazet. Ramel de Nogaret was a supporter of new ideas. On 23 March 1789 he was elected deputy for the third estate representing the sénéchaussée of Carcassonne...
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    southern France the term generally used was sénéchal who held office in a sénéchaussée. The bailie convened a bailie court (cour baillivale) which was an itinerant...
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    véritable hiérarchie sociale de l'ancienne France. Le tarif de la première capitation (1695). Genève. Boislisle, Arthur Michel de (1874). Correspondance des...
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    the king or his representative, usually the lieutenant général or the sénéchaussée. For example, in 1567, when Maixent Poitevin was mayor, king Henry III...
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    Roquemaure, Gard (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1384 Roquemaure was the chef-lieu of one of the 13 vigueries in the sénéchaussée of Beaucaire and Nîmes. It was the site of a royal castle and a large...
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    and journeymen were common. In 1781, the term Bailiage was changed to Sénéchaussée. On 14 December 1782, thanks to Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier, the first...
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    section below). Parlements – eventually 14 in number: Paris, Languedoc (Toulouse), Provence (Aix), Franche-Comté (Besançon), Guyenne (Bordeaux), Burgundy...
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    du Biez who subsequently usurped La Fayette's control of the broader sénéchaussée (region subject to the jurisdiction of a sénéchal - seneschal) in January...
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    Peace of Longjumeau (category Catherine de' Medici)
    with worship permitted in the suburbs of one town per baillage and sénéchaussée. Worship would also be permitted outside of towns on nobles' rural estates...
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    amoureuses de Robert Garnier (1565). After some legal practice at the Parisian bar, he became conseiller du roi au siège présidial and sénéchaussée of Le Maine...
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    Lauzerte (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    Founded in the 12th century by the Count of Toulouse, the village is located on the routes of the Santiago de Compostella. In the northwest corner of the...
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