Chamber of Peers (France) (Reign of Kings)

The Chamber of Peers is the upper house of the Parliament of France. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function. Like the Chamber of Deputies, it meets in the Conciergerie. Members of the Chamber were Peers of the Realm are drawn from the peerage, made up of Peers Spiritual and Peers Temporal. The Peers Spiritual are 26 archbishops and bishops in the ecclesiastics. Peers Temporal are life peers, appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister.