Bazoche

Bazoche was a guild of clerks of the parliament of Paris, under a mock king, during the pre-revolutionary French monarchy, with the privilege of performing religious plays, which they abused. Nevertheless, it was an ancient institution whose roots are unclear.

This organization eventually became disintegrated, dividing up into more specialized bodies: that of the advocates, whose history then begins; and that of legal representatives, whose profession was regularized in 1344, and speedily became a saleable charge.

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