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Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France - The Senechaussees of Libourne and Bazas, 1696-1789 (Hardcover)
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Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France - The Senechaussees of Libourne and Bazas, 1696-1789 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment
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This title, first published in 1984, is a case study of crime and
criminal justice in rural, southwestern France in the last century
of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court
records, often the only documentary evidence of the poor and
illiterate, the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge
of Old Regime society and to our understanding of its judicial
institutions. Rural, Old Regime France seethed with violence.
Assault, homicide, and a violence of speech occurred frequently at
all levels of society. The author's finding that royal fiscal and
judicial officials were recurring targets of this violence
additionally contributes to our understanding of the revolutionary
events ending the Old Regime. This system, providing in principle
for judicial torture and corporal and capital punishments for
relatively minor crimes, has long epitomized much that was wrong
with pre-revolutionary France. But the law in principle is not the
law in practice, and the author finds that both local and appeals
courts seldom decreed such measures. This book will be of interest
to students of history and criminology.
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