Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789
Andrews, Richard Mowery
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 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 ru...
