- This article is about the 17th-century French statesman. There is also an article on 19th-century French statesman Louis Mathieu Molé at Louis, comte Molé. Louis Mathieu comte Molé (24 January 1781 - 23 November 1855 was a French Statesman Biography Molé was born in Paris.
Mathieu Molé (1584 - 3 January 1656) was a French statesman. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
The son of Edouard Molé (d. 1614), who was for a time procureur-general, he was educated at the University of Orléans. The University of Orléans ( Université d'Orléans) is a French university in the Academy of Orléans and Tours Admitted conseiller in 1606, he was président aux requêtes in 1610, procureur-général in succession to Nicolas de Bellièvre in 1614, and took part in the assembly of the Notables summoned at Rouen in 1617. Rouen (ʁwɑ̃ in French) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital He fought in vain against the setting up of special tribunals, or commissions, to try prisoners charged with political offences, and for his persistence in the case of the brothers Louis and Michel de Marillac he was suspended in 1631, and ordered to appear at Fontainebleau in his own defence. Michel de Marillac ( Paris October 1563 — Château de Châteaudun, 7 August 1632) was a French jurist and counsellor at the court of Louis Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.
Hitherto Molé's relations with Cardinal Richelieu had been fairly good, but his inclination to the doctrines of Port Royal increased the differences between them. This article is about a cardinal For information on the Russian also called The Red Eminence, see Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov. Port Royal, Jamaica was the centre of Shipping Commerce in the Islands of the Greater Antilles which make up the northeastern It was not until after Richelieu's death that he was able to secure the release of his friend, the abbé de St Cyran. In 1641 he was appointed first president of the parlement, with the preliminary condition that he should not permit the general assembly of the chambers except by express order of the king. This article is for the Ancien Régime institution For the post-Revolutionary and present-day institution see French Parliament. After Richelieu's death the pretensions of the parlement increased; the hereditary magistrature arrogated to itself the functions of the states-general, and in 1648 the parlement with the other sovereign courts (the cour des aides, the grand conseil, and the cour des comptes) met in one assembly and proposed for the royal sanction twenty-seven articles, which amounted in substance to a new constitution. In France under the Ancien Regime, the States-General or Estates-General (French états généraux) was a Legislative assembly
In the long conflict between Anne of Austria and the parlement, Molé, without yielding the rights of the parlement, played a conciliatory part. For the queen consort of Sigismund III of Poland see Anna of Austria (1573-1598 For the queen consort of Philip II of Spain see Anna of Austria In the popular tumult known as the day of the barricades (26 August 1648) he sought out Mazarin and the queen to demand the release of Pierre Broussel and his colleagues, whose seizure had been the original cause of the outbreak. Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Pierre Broussel (ca 1575-1654 was a councillor in the Parlement of Paris under Louis XIII and Louis XIV, and was eventually its president Next day the parlement marched in procession to repeat Molé's demand. On their way back they were stopped by the crowd. Molé was threatened with death unless he brought back Broussel or Mazarin as a hostage. Many magistrates fled; the remnant, headed by the intrepid Molé, returned to the Palais Royal, where Anne of Austria was induced to release the prisoners.
Molé's moderating counsels failed to prevent the outbreak of the first Fronde, but he negotiated the peace of Rueil in 1651, and averted a conflict between the partisans of Condé and of the Cardinal de Retz within the precincts of the Palais de Justice. La Fronde (1648–1653 was a Civil war in France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635 The Peace of Rueil (Paix de Rueil signed 11 March 1649, signalled an end to the opening episodes of the Fronde, France 's civil war after Jean François Paul de Gondi cardinal de Retz ( September 29, 1613 – August 24, 1679) was a French churchman writer of memoirs and agitator He refused honours and rewards for himself or his family, but became keeper of the seals, in which capacity he was compelled to follow the court, and he therefore retired from the presidency of the parlement. The title Keeper of the Seals or equivalent is used in several contexts denoting the person entitled to keep and authorize use of the Great Seal of a given country
The Mémoires of Molé were edited for the Société de l'histoire de France (4 vols. The Société de l'histoire de France (SHF was established in 1833 at the instigation of the French minister of Public Instruction François Guizot, in order to contribute , 1855) by Aimé Champollion-Figeac, and his life was written by Baron AGP de Barante in Le Parlement et la Fronde (1859). Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière baron de Barante ( June 10 1782 &ndash November 22 1866) was a French statesman and historian See also the memoirs of Omer Talon and of De Retz. Jean François Paul de Gondi cardinal de Retz ( September 29, 1613 – August 24, 1679) was a French churchman writer of memoirs and agitator
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