Chambre Ardente, a name given to certain courts of justice established to try certain cases that required to be sharply dealt with; they were held at night, and even when held in the daytime with lighted torches; a court of the kind was instituted for trial of the Huguenots in 1530, and again in 1680 and 1716.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chambord, Comte de * Chamfort