00:00Under Charles VII, a section specializing in contentious matters appeared.
00:04An ordinance of Charles VIII in 1497, confirmed by Louis XII in 1498, institutionalized it under the name of Grand
00:12Advice.
00:12This became a veritable sovereign court of justice, which the king, incidentally, never attended.
00:17composed of its own staff and charged with ruling on all contentious matters submitted directly to the king, retained justice.
00:23Charles VIII divided his attributions.
00:25The Grand Council itself remained a court of justice that judged certain reserved cases, especially matters relating to
00:31to ecclesiastical benefices.
00:331. The Council of State was composed of four sections, the definitive organization of which was due to Richelieu.
00:39One was judicial, where the State Councillors, under the presidency of the Chancellor, ruled on the report of the Masters of the
00:44requests.
00:45This court primarily adjudicated jurisdictional disputes.
00:48Two other sections of the Council of State formed the Council of Finance and the Council of Dispatches or of the
00:53'inside.
00:531. From 1560 onwards, a new section was put in charge of financial affairs.
00:58The Council of Finance, which returned to the Council around 1600 under the name of Council of State and
01:03finance.
01:05In the 16th century, the Grand Council, having completely separated itself from the person of the king to become an autonomous court,
01:10The litigants obtain permission for the monarch to raise certain legal cases directly in his Council.
01:15These trials are judged during special sessions which give rise to a new section of the Council of State,
01:20in charge of litigation, which takes the name of Privy Council or Council of Parties.
01:24In theory, the king administers justice there with his ordinary advisors.
01:28In fact, this council is chaired by the chancellor and staffed by specialized personnel who only meet there.
01:33the five presidents of the Parliament of Paris, the masters of requests who report on the cases,
01:37the lawyers and prosecutors who represent the parties.
01:39It rules on appeals against judgments of sovereign courts, including the Grand Council.
01:44the evocations, the regulations of judges, the disputes relating to royal offices and ecclesiastical benefices,
01:50relations between Catholics and Protestants, etc.
