Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789: Volume 1, The System of Criminal JusticeLaw, Magistracy and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789 is the first of two volumes centred around the two great courts of Paris, the Chatelet 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. By reconstructing the general system of royal criminal justice, 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. |
Contents
I | 1 |
B The judiciary within the city | 22 |
The judiciary within the state | 43 |
Meanings | 55 |
The Parlement of Paris | 77 |
Tenures in judgeships | 92 |
Themistocrats | 103 |
the uniqueness of the themistocracy | 174 |
Origins and legend | 417 |
Preparatory instruction | 425 |
Definitive instruction | 432 |
Definitive judgment | 473 |
The case record | 517 |
Theft | 536 |
Murder | 548 |
Plan général des vingt Quartiers de la Ville et Faubourg | 587 |
Common terms and phrases
administration amplement informé arrested authority bagne bailliage banishment barristers Bicêtre Bluche bourgeois burglary capital career Chambre des Comptes Chancellery Châtelet Châtelet and Parlement Châtelet judges civil confession convicted Cour des Aides crime criminal lieutenant death penalty defendant edict eighteenth century ennobled evidence families Faubourg Favre-Lejeune François French galériens galleys Gérard Grand Conseil grand criminel guards guilt Hanging Hôpital-Général Ibid incarceration interrogation Isambert Jousse judgment judicial jurisdiction Kerse Kerse's labor livres Louis Louis XIV magisterial magistracy magistrates magistrats du Parlement marriage master of petitions Maussion Méclet ment merchants military murder Muyart nobility noble ordinance Parisian Parl Parlement of Paris parlementaires penal penology percent persons Pierre police president presidial prison prosecutor punishment qu'il Ques question préparatoire robe royal secretary Royal secretaryship Salpêtrière seigneurial Serpillon served seventeenth social sons sovereign courts squad subaltern courts tavern theft themistocracy Thibault torture Tournelle Traité trial vocation XVIIIe siècle