Preface; The French Estates and the Corpus Mysticum Regni; When and why Hotman wrote the Francogallia; The monarchomach triumvirs: Hotman, Beza, and Mornay; 'Quod omnes tangit' - a post scriptum; Medieval jurisprudence in Bodin's concept of sovereignty; The presidents of Parlement at the royal funeral; Rules of inheritance.