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Greffier

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Gref´fi`er
n.1.A registrar or recorder; a notary.


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1570), greffier (clerk) at Parlement, labelled the Joyenval legend about the toads and the lilies a "fable" invented in the time of Charles VI.
As greffier civil [civil clerk] of the Parlement of Paris from 1530 until 1570, Jean du Tillet had a uniquely privileged vantage point from which to observe the making and execution of policy in France during the tumultuous period in which the monarchy struggled to contend with the growing problems of religious schism and political factionalism.
 
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