XXXII Inaugural Address. 
keeper of the seals, by order of Cardinal De Richelieu, and 
was, at first, received with great approbation, which it well 
merits. But onthe death of the Marechal de Marillac, who 
was brought to the scaffold by the Cardinal, the seals were 
taken from his brother, Michel, who was imprisoned, and 
died ofa broken heart in the Castle of Chateaudrin in 1632. 
The disgrace of Michel de Marillac affected the credit 
of the Ordinance of which he was known to be the author. 
It fell into general disrepute, ard, certainly, for a period. 
was not cited in the Parliament of Paris. There were, how- 
ever, even during that period, some Jurisdictions which con- 
tinued to receive it, and in which it was quoted and admit- 
ted to be Law, particularly the Parliament of Dijon, and by 
some writers it is asserted, that it was finally received as 
such in all.(1) But by others this is denied, and the Ordi 
nance is, by them, said to have become obsolete. Non miht 
licet tantas componere Lites. 
Much of the Ecclesiastical Law of France, as it stood at 
the erection of the Sovereign Council of Quebec, is contain« 
ed in the Ordinances which have been enumerated.—They 
relate, in general, to the Government of the Church as well 
as of the State, and to the Jurisprudence and practice of 
Courts, Ecclesiastical as well as Civil. There are, however, 
others which wholly concern the Church, some enacted up- 
on the representations of the States General—some upon the 
representations of the Clergy—and some upon the mere mo- 
tion of the Sovereiga.(2) But the principal Ordinance, on 
this head, is that of Charles the Seventh, of July 1438,(S) 
called the Pragmatic Sanction. 
Daring the schism of Avignon, when, from the year 1378 
to 
(1) Journ. d. Aud. vol. 4. p. 486—Dictr. de Jurisp. vol 3. p. 44—Dé- 
izart, verbo “Pareatis,” No. 25—L. C. Dénizart, vol. 4. p. 586, case of 
the Princess of Carignant, an. 1748—L. C. Dénizart, vol. 9, p. 761.—Ré- 
pertoire, 8vo. vol. 11. p. 431 to 434—Encyclopedia Méthodique de Juris- 
prudence, vol. 2. p. 692—L.C. Dénizart, vol. 1. p, 184, sec. 4. no. 3, 
' (2) Hericourt, Loix Ecclesiastique, introduction, p, 12 & 13, 
(3) Guenois’ Chronologie, p. 7. 
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