lord-lieutenant for the area. The title of provost is derived from the French term prévôt, which has origins in the Roman Empire. In the past, it was associated with...

chief reported to the king, the prévôt des marchands de Paris represented the merchants, and the Parlement de Paris, made up of nobles, was largely ceremonial...

(prévôt des marchands), i.e. the Dean of the City Guilds, who headed traditionally the City Council and the city's merchant companies, thus being de facto...

after Louis Peletier, who was the last but one Prévôt des marchands de Paris (provost of the merchants of Paris) between 1784 and 1789. This feudal position...

side is of Étienne Marcel, the most famous holder of the post of prévôt des marchands (provost of the merchants) which predated the office of mayor. Marcel...

(2022). "Sur les Lettres diverses d'Henry Le Bret, éditeur de Cyrano et prévôt de l'église de Montauban" [On the Lettres diverses of Henry Le Bret, editor...

1743 and to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1751. He was made conseiller d’État in 1762 and prévôt des marchands de Paris in 1764. The scholar Dupuy...

June 1690 in Paris – 1 February 1751 in Paris) was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e. Mayor of Paris) from 1729 to...

of the Prévôt des marchands of Paris was assassinated on the afternoon of the French Revolution Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Paris became...

the fifteenth century, Île Louviers belonged to the fr:Prévôt des marchands de Paris, Nicolas de Louviers, from whom it later took its name. In the seventeenth...