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This paper is aimed at analysing the interrogative constructions in Old French from modern syntactic point of view. For this purpose, we adopt the feature inheritance proposal of Chomsky(2008) and its revised and reinterpreted version of Goto(2008), which will be slightly modified for our analysis. The problems we have to solve are summarized by the following three questions. First, what can be an attractor triggering the finite-verb movement? Second, what will move a wh-phrase to the position of Spec-CP? Third, how can the distinction between a nominal subject movement and a clitic subject movement be accounted for in inverted interrogatives? After analyzing these problems with above-mentioned proposals, we conclude that they can be addressed by the parallel movement and our revised version of feature inheritance system. Finally, we make a comparative list of Old French interrogatives in order to observe differences in parametric variation