RATOR), beside a host of minor officials. Under the Revolution the Constituent Assembly empowered the Chatelet to try cases of lese-nation, and it was also before this court that was opened the inquiry following on the events of Aug. 5 and 6, 1789. It was suppressed by the law of Aug. 16, 1790, together with the other tribunals of the ancien regime. (J. P. E.)