Benoît Garnot, Intime conviction et erreur judiciaire, Un magistrat assassin au XVIIe siècle ?
The brutal murder of Jean-Baptiste Brunet, an official of the chancery of the bailliage of Beaune, and his servant Élisabeth Pelisson, on 22 March 1649, has left an unusually rich paper trail which enables Benoît Garnot not only to reconstruct the details of the crime, its investigation and conclus...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The brutal murder of Jean-Baptiste Brunet, an official of the chancery of the bailliage of Beaune, and his servant Élisabeth Pelisson, on 22 March 1649, has left an unusually rich paper trail which enables Benoît Garnot not only to reconstruct the details of the crime, its investigation and conclusion in August 1650, but to use the huge corpus of surviving witness statements as a window onto seventeenth-century French provincial life. This is history in the best of the Annales tradition: the... |
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