Other Organizations
- Cardinal’s Guard – the personal bodyguards of Cardinal Richelieu
- Paris Archers – the guards of the Provost-Martial of Paris
- The Six Guilds of Paris – the powerful bourgeoisie of the luxury guilds of Paris
- Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) – a Church congregation for planning missionary work
- Order of the Christian Militia – crusader order established by the duc de Nevers
- Académie d’Équitation – the premier academy for young gentlemen in Paris
- Académie d’Armes – French guild of master fencers
- Académie de Sedan – Huguenot academy
- Académie des frères Dupuy – salon frequented by academics, scientists, and the literati of Paris
- Collège de rhétorique et de poésie françaises – Toulousain academy of poetry established in 1323
- Order of the Fleur de Lys – regiment of Scottish mercenaries founded in the fifteenth century
- Court of Miracles – court of the ‘king’ of the Parisian underworld
- Faculté de médecine de Paris – the premier physicians guild in France
- Collège royal de chirurgie – the royal college of surgeon-barbers
