BOUTHILLIER (Denis)
    RESPONSE OF MR. DB ON THE ALLEGED PRIVILEGE OF THE PRIDE OF SAINT ROMAIN AGAINST THE DEFENSE OF THE DEANS, CANONS & CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ROUEN ADDRESSED TO THEM THEMSELVES. TOGETHER WITH THE RULINGS ISSUED IN THE GRAND COUNCIL ON THE QUESTION OF THE ALLEGED PRIVILEGE CONTESTED IN THE TRIAL CONCERNING THE MURDER COMMITTED ON THE PERSON OF THE LATE SIEUR DE HALOT
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1608
    octavo, contemporary ivory vellum with flaps and ties, (slight marginal worm damage, damp stain at the beginning of the volume), 6 leaves-304 pages-2 leaves.
    Here we have one of the most interesting cases in 17th-century criminal law. The chapter of Rouen claimed a miracle performed by St. Romain, who had killed a great dragon called the Gargoyle (around 640) with the help of a murderer whom he had freed from prison for this purpose. The ecclesiastical authorities asserted that this had resulted in a privilege allowing them to release a criminal at each procession of the reliquary of St. Romain. At the end of the 16th century, this privilege began to be severely criticized, particularly by Bodin, who contested the possibility for an ecclesiastical authority to remit a sentence pronounced by the sovereign's courts. In 1592, following another release pronounced by the Archbishop of Rouen, the controversy erupted very fiercely, and this text constitutes the first work published within the context of this debate: it is a vehement attack against the alleged privilege of the chapter of Rouen.

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Mots-clés : Pleadings - Indictments - Eloquence - Trials

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