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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...