(Lit de Justice), in France, under the old régime, a throne upon which the king sat when he went to the parliament. The king never held a bed of justice unless for affairs that concerned the state, and then all the officers of parliament were clothed in scarlet robes. This ceremony in process of time became synonymous with an act of arbitrary power on the part of the sovereign. The last occasion on which a lit de justice was held, was on the 6th of August 1787, when the proposition for assembling the states-general was rejected.

BED-CHAMBER, Lords of the, officers of the royal household under the groom of the stole. They are twelve in number, and attend in turn, a week each. There are also thirteen grooms of the bed-chamber who wait by turn. Salaries are attached to these offices. A queen regnant in like manner is attended by Ladies of the Bed-chamber.