Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735–1789
Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735–1789
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GBPLaw, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735–1789 is the first of two volumes centred around the two great courts of Paris, the Châtelet and Parlement, and their criminal defendants in the eighteenth century. Richard Andrews seeks to refute the 'black legend' of revolutionary propaganda and its modern historical successors, which hold that the Old Regime courts were cruel and arbitrary. These courts are shown rather to be thoroughly rule-bound and consisting of strict judicial procedure derived from royal statutes. Rule of and by the law is shown to be the most substantial legacy of the Old Regime. This volume places the courts of Old Regime Paris in the context of French society and the state. The practices and doctrines of punishment are examined, along with the jurisprudence of moral and criminal behaviour.
- The first volume of a detailed study of key French eighteenth-century institutions
- Seeks to explode the myths surrounding 'old regime' systems of French justice
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November 2006Paperback
9780521526364
632 pages
233 × 153 × 10 mm
0.224kg
32 b/w illus. 25 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations, charts, and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Principal sources and abbreviations
- General introduction: A. The metropolis and its region
- B. The judiciary within the city
- C. The judiciary within the state
- Part I. Themistocracy: Introduction: meanings
- 1. The Châtelet of Paris
- 2. The Parlement of Paris
- 3. Themistocrats
- 4. A Fourth Estate: the uniqueness of the themistocracy
- 5. Themistocratic family and kinship: the Maussions and their allies
- 6. Professional culture
- Conclusion: rule of law
- Appendix: letter of appointment for Augustin Testard du Lys
- Part II. Punishment: Introduction: imagery
- 7. Liability and immunity
- 8. Purposes
- 9. Forms
- 10. Royal mercy
- Conclusion: tradition and modernity
- Appendix: arrest de la cour du Parlement
- Part III. Trial and Judgement: The Procedure of the 1670 Criminal Ordinance: Introduction: origins and legend
- 11. Initiating judicial action
- 12. Preparatory instruction
- 13. Definitive instruction
- 14. Interlocutory judgement
- 15. Definitive judgement
- Conclusion: principles
- Appendix: penal decision, a mathematical model
- Part IV. Trials and Judgments: Illustrative Cases: Introduction: the case record
- 16. Assault
- 17. Theft
- 18. Murder
- Conclusion: judgement: knowledge or power?
- Conclusion to volume I
- Index.
