. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. judges, to theParliament of Paris. CHAPTER XXII. The First President. Un viel homme enchaisne, demy ignorant et demy savant, comme un Andro-gyne de diable qui estoit de hmettes caparassonne comme une tortue descailles,et ne vivait que dune viande quils appellent en leur patois Appellations.^—Rabelais. RE AT as was theposition of First Pre-sident of the
. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. judges, to theParliament of Paris. CHAPTER XXII. The First President. Un viel homme enchaisne, demy ignorant et demy savant, comme un Andro-gyne de diable qui estoit de hmettes caparassonne comme une tortue descailles,et ne vivait que dune viande quils appellent en leur patois Appellations.^—Rabelais. RE AT as was theposition of First Pre-sident of the Parlia-ment of Paris, andhead of the civil andcriminal judicature ofFrance^ it will be ad-mitted that it was ingeneral worthily filled,and that France canlook back with justpride to a long list ofable and upright magistrates who have held the great place, which early in the century had been filledby the unscrupulous and ambitious, but vigorous and abledu Prat, which had just been vacated by the virtuous andexcellent de Selve, which was soon to fall to the learnedand prudent Jean Bertrandi, and upon which in the twofollowing centuries the de Harlais, the de Thous, theMol6s, and the Bellievres were to confer so much lustre,. ETIENNE DOLET. 409 was occupied from 1529 to 1551 by Pierre Lizet, one of thesmallest persons who ever held that great office, and whois known to posterity—if known in any way—neither as ajudge, nor as a jurist, nor as a theologian, in all whichcapacities he hoped to go down with lustre to future ages,but as the hero of Bezas merciless satire the EpistolaPassavatiti. As we seldom think of his predecessor the greatdu Prat without remembering the epithet which Bcaucairenot unfairly applied to him, the worst of bipeds, to Lizetwe might with justice appl) the expression, the most stupidof bipeds! He outrivalled Hercules, says the author ofthe Epitaphc dc Monsieur Pierre Lizet:— Car il fait mourir en mourantLa plus grand bcste qui ful onqucs. W
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