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- Title
DISGRACE WITHOUT DISHONOUR: THE INTERNAL EXILE OF FRENCH MAGISTRATES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- Authors
Swann, Julian
- Abstract
The article investigates disgrace and internal exile of French magistrates in the 18th century. Magistrates who receive a letter de cachet were forced to leave their homes within hours, and are expected to establish themselves in an often different environment and to await the restoration of the king's favor. Judicial politics in early France functioned according to a highly sophisticated and flexible set of unwritten rules and conventions. Whenever the king implemented controversial laws or levied new taxation, he was expected to employ bribes, threats, and other methods to achieve his ends.
- Subjects
FRANCE; EXILE (Punishment); HUMILIATION; JUDGES; NOBILITY (Social class); PRACTICAL politics; HISTORY; POLITICAL science; ETHNOCRACY
- Publication
Past & Present, 2007, Vol 195, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gtl030