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SEDUCTIVE TOPOGRAPHIES: THE LANGUAGES OF LANDSCAPE IN LA PUCE DE MADAME DES-ROCHES
Romanic Review, May 2004 by Tarte, Kendall
63. The Lettres patentes du Roy for the 1579 sessions privilege obedience to the king above other reasons for the institution of these Grands Jours: the text condemns crimes "contre l'obéissance que nosdits subiects doiuent à nous & à lustice, contre le repos public, & à l'oppression du pauure peuple" (6). see also Félix Pasquier, Grands Jours de Poitiers, and J. H. Shennan, The Parlement of Paris (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968), 83.
64. One of the most commonly used phrases is "inhibitions et deffences." see, for example, the decree of September 19, which requires nobles to open their houses to the search for criminals; the punishment for harboring convicted criminals is the razing of their houses (Arrest de la court des Grandz lovrs séant en la Ville de Poictiers [Poitiers: Aymé Mesnier, 1579], A iiiir-A iiiiv).
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65. É. Littré, Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, 4 vols. (Paris: Hachette, 1873-75) 3: 1361-62. Littré defines "prospect" as the way of looking at an object: "manière de regarder un objet." Huguet gives the following définitions: "vue, situation, orientation" and "vue, aspect, perspective" (Dictionnaire de la langue française du seizième siècle, 6: 226).
66. Patricia Parker, Literary Fat Ladies, 126-54.
67. The king legally obliged local authorities to execute the sentences of the Parisian court; see Félix Pasquier (Grands Jours de Poitiers, 41-43).
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