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Sorcellerie, justice criminelle et société dans la France moderne (l'ego-histoire d'un Américain à Paris)

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[eng] Abstract The article retraces the path followed in the course of twenty-five years of research. The point of departure was an investigation into the practice of censorship (drawing primarily upon diplomatic dispatches). This project led to the discovery that the prison records of the Conciergerie furnish the long-sought key to the criminal archives of the Parlement of Paris and open the door to intensive serial research. These archives tell us less about the levels of criminality in the society than they do about the image consciously projected by the judicial institution itself. The present text surveys witchcraft trials, torture and punishment, concluding with a preliminary sketch of the lessons to be drawn from a of 1500 hangings for the crime of infanticide. [fre] Résumé L'article retrace le chemin de vingt-cinq années de recherches. A l'origine, une enquête sur la censure, saisie essentiellement à travers les dépêches diplomatiques : elle a permis de comprendre que les registres d'écrou de la Conciergerie fournissent la clef aux archives criminelles du Parlement de Paris. Aussi a-t-il été possible d'entreprendre pour la première fois une exploitation sérielle de ces dernières. Plutôt qu'un bilan de la criminalité, elles nous livrent Y image volontairement créée par l'institution judiciaire elle-même. Outre une synthèse des travaux de l'auteur sur les procès de sorcellerie, sur la torture et sur la pénalité, on trouvera une première esquisse des leçons à tirer de la série de 1500 pendaisons pour crime d'infanticide.

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  • Alfred Soman, 1993. "Sorcellerie, justice criminelle et société dans la France moderne (l'ego-histoire d'un Américain à Paris)," Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 12(2), pages 177-217.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1993_num_12_2_1668
    DOI: 10.3406/hes.1993.1668
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