An accurate tho' compendious history of the antient parliaments of  France ...
Subtitle: in two volumes
By: the whole written in French by that         celebrated and impartial historian, the Count de Boulainvilliers, the merit of  whose works has caused it to be suppressed in France
Contributors: Forman, Charles, active 1728
Publisher: Printed for J. Brindley, bookseller, ..., and sold by Mary Cooper ... ; Mess. Meadows, Brackston, and Bourn ; J. Hodges, ... ; T. Payne, ... ; and all other booksellers both in town and country
Published: 1754
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Politics and government; France. États généraux; France
Other titles: Accurate though compendious history of the ancient parliaments of France.
Notes: Translation of: Histoire des anciens parlements de France, ou     Etats généraux du royaume, which was originally published as v. 3 of the      author's Histoire de l'ancien gouvernement de la France.

Remainder of t.p.: Compriz'd in fourteen letters, more particularly requisite to be read at this critical juncture, as there have of late been divisions of such importance between the present parliament and the clergy, in regard to their attachement to the Romish see, and their favourite bull, entitled, the Unigenitus.

Remainder of t.p. (cont.): Shewing the quality of their members; the form of their debates; the extent of their power; and their most remarkable judgments.  As also the characters of the princes who first call'd them; and the perfidious artifices of the subsequent French monarchs and their bigotted ministers, who gradually reduced that unhappy nation from a state of liberty, to that of the lowest degree of poverty and bondage.

Remainder of t.p. (cont.): Together with a chronological abstract of the history of France from its first foundation; and a curious map of the country, never before published.

Translated by Charles Forman, whose name appears on Brindley's 1739 ed.