LOUIS Jean-Baptiste – MÉMOIRES D’UN AVOCAT AU COEUR DES RÉVOLUTIONS, 1789 - 1830, Édition établie et annotée par Geoffroy Caillet (Rédacteur en chef du Figaro histoire), Présentation par Yves Ozanam (Archiviste de l’ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris)
LOUIS Jean-Baptiste – MÉMOIRES D’UN AVOCAT AU COEUR DES RÉVOLUTIONS, 1789 - 1830, Édition établie et annotée par Geoffroy Caillet (Rédacteur en chef du Figaro histoire), Présentation par Yves Ozanam (Archiviste de l’ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris)
    LOUIS Jean-Baptiste
    MEMOIRS OF A LAWYER AT THE HEART OF THE REVOLUTIONS, 1789-1830, Edition established and annotated by Geoffroy Caillet (Editor-in-Chief of Figaro Histoire), Introduction by Yves Ozanam (Archivist of the Paris Bar Association), Illustrated insert of 12 plates
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    2016
    PDF, BOOK IN PDF FORMAT (eBook) - This is not a printed book, XXXII-292 p.
    • PDF (eBook) - This is not a printed book • How does one become a "Prosecutor at the Parliament of Paris" in the rigid society of the late 18th century, when one comes from the lower middle class? How can one remain a royalist when one is not even 30 years old at the time of the storming of the Bastille? How can one accept becoming a farmer in Issy-les-Moulineaux to escape the Reign of Terror and survive the collapse of the Ancien Régime's justice system? And how, as the Revolution recedes, does one go from this chaotic start to a career to the prestigious position of President of the Paris Bar Association? Jean-Baptiste Louis answers all these questions in these unpublished memoirs, which have remained in the family for nearly two centuries. This important and rare testimony provides crucial information on the workings of the legal profession under the Ancien Régime and the Revolution, on the functioning of the bar, and on the condition of lawyers during these uncertain times. But it is also the story of a man from the beginning of his studies to his rise to prominence. We are given the account of a young man fascinated by the young nobles entering the judiciary, who witnesses, terrified, the birth of one of his children during the September Days of 1792, and whose blood runs cold when he recalls, with his precise and vivid style, the interrogation he underwent at the Revolutionary Tribunal. But it is also the story of the older man whose Legitimist convictions set him against the ambitious Orleanists: Dupin, who succeeds him as president of the bar association, and the Dowager Duchess who tries to force him to sell his beloved country estate. Through this exceptional document, we traverse fifty years of the dismantling of an old order and the rise of a more industrial than intellectual upper class, all seen through the eyes of this lifelong royalist who deplores these changes yet participates in them. Along the way, he recounts his successes and failures, his fears and joys, and provides us with invaluable insights into the judicial system of the time. It offers specialists unprecedented information while also allowing a wider audience to discover the inner workings of this world in revolution, which in some respects bears a striking resemblance to our own era.

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Mots-clés : Pleadings - Indictments - Eloquence - Trials, Legal Profession - Ethics

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