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...withdrew to his study at 38, with nothing more to show for his years than much high living, an undistinguished period of service in the Bordeaux Parlement, and a translation into French of a single, unimportant ecclesiastical text. For the next nine years, surrounded by his own library of 1,000 books, he wrote the first two volumes of the Essays. Before kidney stones killed him in 1592 at 59, he produced one more volume and a journal of his tour through Italy, Switzerland and Germany. And that...
...that papal jurisdiction over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual-the position generally accepted today. On the other hand, in opposition to the Scottish jurist Barclay, he denied the divine right of kings, for which one of his books, De potestate papae, was publicly burned by the Parlement of Paris...
...Semaine du Parlement...
...Union Franchise for Woman Suffrage is piqued because Messieurs les Senateurs et Deputés have ignored the suffrage question. These active ladies have decided to send all of the recalcitrant males in le Parlement a letter, pointing out that Belgian women vote, that Primo de Rivera has decreed the vote for the senoritas of Castille and Aragon, and that Benito Mussolini has promised that the donnas of Italy may vote sometime soon...
Emile Bure, editor of L'Eelair, Paris journal, in a pro-Entente article suggests the formation of a "sur-Parlement," or over-Parliament, in which French and British members would deal with questions affecting both countries. In default of a Franco-British Parliament, M. Bure suggests frequent meetings between British M. P.'s and French Deputies with the object, not only of strengthening the Entente, but of assimilating the foreign policy of each country toward the other. It is understood that such meeting will be arranged for by the French and British Governments...