Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735 1789
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521526361
ISBN-13
9780521526364
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 23rd, 2006
Print length
632 Pages
Weight
224 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.30 x 1.00 cms
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By reconstructing the general system of royal criminal justice in France, Richard Andrews explores the political system connected to it: the formation, authority and ethos of the magistracy and its relation to the monarchy, the Church, the aristocracy, the bourgeois and the plebeians.
Law, 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.
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