<Li> Cours des aides--Paris, Clermont, Bordeaux, Montauban . The cours des aides supervised affairs in the pays d'élections, often concerning taxes on wine, beer, soap, oil, metals, etc . </Li> <Li> Chambre des comptes combined with Cours des aides--Aix, Bar - le - Duc, Dole, Nancy, Montpellier, Pau, Rouen </Li> <Li> Cours des monnaies--Paris; additionally Lyon (1704--71), and (after 1766), the chambre des comptes of Bar - le - Duc and Nancy . The cours des monnaies oversaw money, coins and precious metals . </Li> <Li> Grand Conseil--created in 1497 to oversee affairs concerning ecclesiastical benefices; occasionally the king sought the Grand Conseil's intervention in affairs considered to be too contentious for the parliament . </Li>

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