PARLIAMENTS]. Defense of the royal authority against the Parliaments. In French, manuscript on paper. France, [1754]. 407 pp, small volume in-4, modern paper boards, red edges. Manuscript copy of a writing dated August 20, 1753, in which the author has "the desire to make known the royal authority by a simple compilation of what has been said and thought on this subject by our most famous jurisconsults and our most accredited authors, it will remind us in short a precise history of our monarchy with the institution and creation of our sovereign courts and we will be in a state to know the authority of the King and to place the Parliaments in the right limits of that which is proper to them.» Although he claims not to be an "author", he reserves the right to "make some deviations" as he sees fit. This work is situated in the context of the parliamentary crisis that began in April 1753 when the Parliament of Paris developed remonstrances to beg the king to "no longer abandon his authority in the hands of the Ecclesiastics who abuse it indecently: Louis XV refused to receive them. In return, the magistrates decided to cease their service. The sanction fell quickly: the Parliament was moved first to Pontoise and then to Soissons. A royal chamber composed of commissioners was charged with replacing it. Although entirely devoted to the royal authority, the author is somewhat dubious about the merits of this creation: "this would be the place to speak of the Royal Chamber established by letters patent of September 18 last. We find it hard to believe that they will restore peace and that they will bring the Robe back within the just limits that should make up all its glory.