The obituary of the historian Helmut Koenigsberger was illustrated with this 16th-century engraving by Franz Hogenberg. It captures a particularly dramatic moment in the developing relationship between between monarchs and their subjects, and the emergence of a parliament in our modern understanding of that term.
The Parlement of Paris was the most important law court in the land, and the presence of the French king, Henry II, in June 1559 was an indication that all was not well. He flew into a rage, demanded that the register be surrendered to him so that its record could be amended, stormed out of the building with his entourage, and ordered the arrest of eight parlementaires.
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