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CRIME AND REPRESSION IN THE AUVERGNE AND THE GUYENNE 1 7 2 0-1 7 9 0 CRIME AND REPRESSION IN THE AUVERGNE AND THE GUYENNE 1720-1790 I A I N A. C AM E R 0 N Senior Lecturer in History University of Sydney CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge London New York New Rochelle Melbourne Sydney CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CambridgNee,w YorkM,e lbourneM,a dridC,a peT own,S ingapoSraeo,P aulo CambridUgnei versPirteys s TheE dinburBguhi ldiCnagm,b ridCgBe2 8RU,U K Publishientd h eU niteSdt atoefsA mericbay C ambridUgnei versPirteys Nse,w York www.cambridge.org Informatoinot nh itsi tlwew:w .cambridge.org/9780521238823 © CambridUgnei versPirteys 1s9 81 Thisp ublicatiisio ncn o pyrigShutb.j etcots tatuteoxrcye ption andt ot hep rovisioofnr se levacnotl lectliivcee nsaignrge ements, nor eproducotfia onny p armta yt akpel acwei thotuhte w ritten permissoifoC na mbridUgnei versPirteys s. Firsptu blish1e9d8 1 Thisd igitaplrliyn tveedr si2o0n0 8 A catalogue recordf or this publication is available from the British Library ISBN9 78-0-521-23h8a8r2d-b3a ck ISBN9 78-0-521-07p3a8p3e-r7b ack For parents my Contents List of maps and table page IX Preface xi Abbreviations and note on coinage xiii Glossary of French terms XIV Introduction 1 Part I: The means of repression Chapter 1 A cheap police force 17 Accounts 17 Numbers 18 Pay 21 The implications of poverty 28 Chapter 2 Police recruitment and discipline 38 The officers 38 The men 41 Chapter 3 The marechaussee at work 56 Prevots-generaux 56 Lieutenants 57 The brigades: location and patrols 69 Military, civil and municipal duties 79 The arrest of vagabonds and beggars 101 Negligence and incompetence, success and failure 115 Chapter 4 The prevotal court 133 Competence 133 Procedure and evidence 141 Punishment 154 The court's clientele and the treatment of vagabonds 161 vii viii Contents Part Crime and disorder JI : Chapter 5 Theft 179 Chapter 6 Violence 191 Vol-violence 191 Violence in the Auvergne 193 Violence in theP erigord 198 Police violence 207 Chapter 7 Rebellion and riot 212 Main-forte 217 Militia operations 222 Disarmament 224 Rebellion at the fete 226 Rebellion at church 230 Grain disturbances 232 Chapter 8 The marechaussee in Revolution, 1789-1790 242 Epilogue 258 Appendices 1. The marechaussee on 1 January 1 790 261 2. Occupations ofp revOtal prisoners in the Perigord, 1 720-1790 262 Bibliography 265 Index 275 Maps 1 The generalites of eighteenth-century France page 11 2 The marechaussee of the Auvergne in the eighteenth century 70 3 The marechaussee of the Guyenne in the eighteenth century 74 4 The senechaussees of theP erigord 139 Table Prevotal crimes, Perigord 1720-1790 136 ix
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