Dr Tom Hamilton tom.b.hamilton@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
[French] Jugé par les magistrats du Parlement de Paris entre 1599 et 1600, cet exceptionnel procès révèle les dynamiques locales des violences à la fin des guerres de Religion ainsi que les réponses judiciaires faites aux victimes. L’initiative de l’affaire vient de Renée Chevalier, dame de Chaumot, qui rassemble des dizaines de témoins pour les confronter au capitaine Mathurin Delacanche, qui avait commis des viols, vols et homicides pendant l’hiver 1590-1591 dans le village de Chaumot, situé dans le Sénonais. Juridiquement, cette affaire offre un exemple d’application de l’article 86 de l’édit de Nantes portant sur les « cas exécrables » commis par les gens de guerre, article peu connu des historiens. Mis en lumière pour la première fois, ces documents constituent une des affaires les plus importantes conservées dans les archives criminelles du Parlement de Paris au seizième siècle. / [English] This case, tried by the magistrates of the Parlement of Paris in 1599 and 1600, sheds new light on the local dynamics of violence in the later religious wars as well as the judicial responses pursued by its victims. The case came to court on the initiative of the plaitiff, Renée Chevalier, dame de Chaumot, who assembled dozens of witnesses to testify to the many rapes, thefts, and homicides committed by the military captain Mathurin Delacanche in their village in the Sénonais during the winter of 1590-1. The dispute serves as a case study in the application of eighty-six of the Edict of Nantes, concerning the « execrable crimes » which were exempt from the famous order in the edict’s first article, which consigned the troubles to oblivion. Presented here for the first time, the surviving documents in this affair constitute one of the most detailed cases preserved in the criminal archives of the Parlement of Paris in the sixteenth century.
Hamilton, T. (online). Un 'cas exécrable' devant le Parlement de Paris à la fin des guerres de Religion (1599-1600). Criminocorpus (Revue), https://doi.org/10.4000/criminocorpus.12196
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 20, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 20, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Jan 20, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 20, 2023 |
Journal | Criminocorpus |
Electronic ISSN | 2108-6907 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4000/criminocorpus.12196 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1183110 |
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