Les Cavaliers du Bouc : brigandage et répression en Basse Meuse (1730-1778)
Organised bandirty is rarely tackled by studies on collective violence, though this aspect is truly interesting because it generally simultaneously reveals two forms of collective violence. These two forms are banditry itself, and the public authority repression. Anton Blok analyses in this contribu...
Guardat en:
| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/conflits, |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
| Publicat: |
Cultures & conflits
2007
|
| Matèries: | |
| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Organised bandirty is rarely tackled by studies on collective violence, though this aspect is truly interesting because it generally simultaneously reveals two forms of collective violence. These two forms are banditry itself, and the public authority repression. Anton Blok analyses in this contribution the ascent of the goat-riders (« cavaliers du bouc »), these 18th Century riders who raged in the French Basse Meuse region, and the repression they suffered from. The author shows that even if these forms of violence were new to the region, they had relatively weak effects : the 'goat-riders' were eventually military defeated and the former social order thus re-established. Thereby, the author shows that forms of massive violence can remain geographically and historically circumscribed. Concerning these horsemen, this circumscribtion was such that they have been forgotten by the official history. |
|---|