Crossword-Solution: ARRET 5 letters, 88 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Parliament of Paris afterwards declared the sentence illegal, and the judges iniquitous; but its arret was too late to be of service even to those who had paid the fine, or to punish the authorities who had misconducted themselves; for it was not delivered until thirty-two years after the executions had taken place.

There are three such jails (Maisons d’Arret) in Paris--Sainte-Pelagie, La Force, and les Madelonettes.

Nor can I quite deny that I feel a half mischievous delight in reducing to despair, "'_-------ce peuple de rivales Qui toutes, disputant, d'un si grand interet, Des yeux d'Assuérus attendent leur arret._' "_Assuérus_ (which, of course, means me) keeps one perpetual reply to all their high-sounding praises and eulogiums of such or such a lady.

Not but that when the duc de Crequi, the French ambassador, was insulted at Rome in the year 1662, the parliament of Provence passed an arret, declaring the city of Avignon, and the county Venaiss in part of the ancient domain of Provence; and therefore reunited it to the crown of France, which accordingly took possession; though it was afterwards restored to the Roman see at the peace of Pisa.

Nor can I quite deny that I feel a half mischievous delight in reducing to despair, “‘_------- ce peuple de rivales Qui toutes, disputant, d’un si grand interet, Des yeux d’Assuérus attendent leur arret._’ “_Assuérus_ (which, of course, means me) keeps one perpetual reply to all their high-sounding praises and eulogiums of such or such a lady.