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A very happy personage in the year of grace 1482, was the noble gentleman Robert d'Estouteville, chevalier, Sieur de Beyne, Baron d'Ivry and Saint Andry en la Marche, counsellor and chauard of the provostship of Paris It was already nearly seventeen years since he had received fro, on Novee of the provostship of Paris, which was reputed rather a seigneury than an office ~Dignitas~, says Joannes Loeua potestate politiaativisin '82 was a gentle's commission, and whose letters of institution ran back to the epoch of the hter of Louis XI with Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon

This coia, ordered public prayers, is the same which reappeared in 1835

The same day on which Robert d'Estouteville took the place of Jacques de Villiers in the provostship of Paris, Master Jehan Dauvet replaced Messire Helye de Thorrettes in the first presidency of the Court of Parliament, Jehan Jouvenel des Ursins supplanted Pierre de Morvilliers in the office of chancellor of France, Regnault des Dore of 's household Now, upon how many heads had the presidency, the chancellorship, the mastership passed since Robert d'Estouteville had held the provostship of Paris It had been "granted to hi," as the letters patent said; and certainly he kept it well He had clung to it, he had incorporated himself with it, he had so identified hie which possessed Louis XI, a tor, whose policy it was to maintain the elasticity of his power by frequent appointments and revocations More than this; the brave chevalier had obtained the reversion of the office for his son, and for two years already, the naured beside his at the head of the register of the salary list of the provostship of Paris A rare and notable favor indeed! It is true that Robert d'Estouteville was a good soldier, that he had loyally raised his pennon against "the league of public good," and that he had presented to the queen a veryin confectionery on the day of her entrance to Paris in 14 Moreover, he possessed the good friendship of Messire Tristan l'Her's household Hence a very sweet and pleasant existence was that of Messire Robert In the first place, very good wages, to which were attached, and frorapes on his vine, the revenues of the civil and criistries of the provostship, plus the civil and criminal revenues of the tribunals of E soes of Mantes and of Corbeil, and the profits on the craft of Shagreen-makers of Paris, on the corders of firewood and thehi his fine military costume, which you may still admire sculptured on his tomb in the abbey of Valmont in Normandy, and his ainst the parti-colored red and tawny robes of the alder to wield absolute supreeants of the police, the porter and watch of the Châtelet, the two auditors of the Châtelet, ~auditores castelleti~, the sixteen commissioners of the sixteen quarters, the jailer of the Châtelet, the four enfeoffed sergeants, the hundred and twenty eants, with maces, the chevalier of the watch with his watch, his sub-watch, his counter-watch and his rear-watch? Was it nothing to exercise high and low justice, the right to interrogate, to hang and to draithout reckoning petty jurisdiction in the first resort (~in prima instantia~, as the charters say), on that viscoed with seven noble bailiwicks? Can anything sweeter be iments and decisions, as Messire Robert d'Estouteville daily did in the Grand Châtelet, under the large and flattened arches of Philip Augustus? and going, as he ont to do every evening, to that char house situated in the Rue Galilee, in the enclosure of the royal palace, which he held in right of his wife, Mada sent soht in "that little cell of the Rue de Escorcherie, which the provosts and alder eleven feet long, seven feet and four inches wide, and eleven feet high?"Comptes du domaine, 1383