accepter une terre comme un hommage = to accept the land as a mark or token of gratitude
Ancien Régime = Ancien Régime
anobli = recently ennobled commoner
Après J.-C. = A.D.
armées révolutionnaires = `people's armies' reorganized as the gendarmerie in 1790.
arrondissement = (Admin) district, one of 12 administative subdivisions of Paris introduced in the Autumn of 1795, and replacing the 48 sections which had existed since 1790.
canton = canton, district; administrative subdivision of the departement between district and commune levels
chef-lieu = administrative capital (of a departement, district,etc.).
commune = the smallest administrative unit, approximately equivalent to a parish
département = departement, region
districts = electorial divisions of Paris, 60 in number, created for elections to the EG
évêché = (region) bishopric
faubourgs = suburbs, or, as in Paris, former suburbs
municipalité = administrators (mayor, ect) of each commune.
sections = the 48 units of local governement, replacing the 60 districts of 1789-1790, into which Paris was divided
seigneurie = seigneurie: conventionally divided into domaine, containing manorhouse, main farm buildings ect; and the censives, land ownwd by peasants under seigneurial obligations.
assemblées primaires = `primary assemblies'
assemblées provinciales = `provincial assemblies'
attribuer = allouer qqch à qqn dans un partage
Avant J.-C. = B.C.
baillage, sénéchaussée = royal courts
banalités = much detested seigneurial monopolies, under which peasants were obliged to use their seigneur's mill, oven, wine-press, ect, in return for payment.
biens nationaux, eccésiastiques, dominaux, des émigrés = `national lands': nationalized property of the church
canton = canton, district; administrative subdivision of the departement between district and commune levels
la Chambre = the House
Chambre des Communes = `House of Commons'
chef-lieu = administrative capital (of a departement, district,ect.).
commune = the smallest administrative unit, approximately equivalent to a parish
Commune = municipal government of Paris
Conseil du roi = king's council. Its main subcommittees were also sometimes given this title, notably the Comité des dépêches which handled prov business, petitions and dispatches, and the Comité des finances.
conseil exécutif (provisoire) = council of ministers
Grand Conseil = sovereign jurisdiction charged with settling disputes between parliament
Cour plénière = `Plenary Court'
cour souveraine = the sovereign courts were in theory those which judged without appeal
croisé = crusade
département = departement, region
de haute/basse extraction = of noble/mean extraction or descent, of high/low birth
districts = electorial divisions of Paris, 60 in number, created for elections to the EG
état civil = registry, and registration, of births, marriages, and deaths which became a state monopoly by the law
Etats généraux = the Estates General
évêché = (region) bishopric
extraction (de haute/basse) = of noble/mean extraction or descent, of high/low birth
faire ses preuves en 1711 = to reaffirm a families' title of nobility in 1711
faubourgs = suburbs, or, as in Paris, former suburbs
franc-fief = `franc-fee': payment to the crown by any commoner purchasing a seigneurie
Grand'Chambre = most senior and most prestigious chamber of the chamber of the Paris parliament which dealt with all priority business
Grand Conseil = sovereign jurisdiction charged with settling disputes between parliament
faire remonter la famille à = to trace a family back to
fief = fief; feudal term signifying a seigneurie or any noble property
généralité = main fiscal and administrative unit of France
grenier à sel = storehouses for salt
greniers d'abondance = grain warehouses
habitant = resident of a county/city
maréchaussée = paramilitary mounted police force
métayage = sharecropping
Midi = the south of France
municipalité = administrators (mayor, ect) of each commune.
noblesse d'épée = the old `sword nobility', which had allegedly won its noble status through feats of combat
noblesse de cloche = individuals who had achieved noble status through municipal office (e.g. in Paris, Toulouse).
noblesse de robe = individuals whose noble status derived from office in the royal bureaucracy.
présidial =tribunal d'Appel pour des baillage ordinaires = Court of Appeal
ramifier = to branch (a family) not "brancher"
récompenser des terres/ pour des services
remonter = to trace back
résident = diplomat or a person living in a country other than their country of origin
sections = the 48 units of local governement, replacing the 60 districts of 1789-1790, into which Paris was divided
seigneurie = seigneurie: conventionally divided into domaine, containing manorhouse, main farm buildings ect; and the censives, land ownwd by peasants under seigneurial obligations.
sénéchaussée = voir baillage
titré = conféré un titre de noblesse à quelqu'un
tribunes = public gallaries
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