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{"title":"Morphine on Trial","authors":"S. Black","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7689198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7689198","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines medical-legal debates over the criminal responsibility of morphine addicts in the fin de siècle, at a time when the use of psychotropic drugs was not yet illegal. Addicted defendants argued that morphine had produced a temporary state of insanity at the time of the crime. However, medical-legal experts emphasized the regulatory influence of morphine over the addicted body, navigating between moralistic arguments about the primacy of free will and deterministic arguments about the role of physiology in establishing criminal responsibility. Withdrawal, rather that morphine, served as the primary condition for criminal irresponsibility in most cases of addiction. Therefore morphine became a fundamental element of the addicted individual, required for these defendants to be considered sane and morally responsible.Cet article examine les débats médico-légaux sur la responsabilité pénale des morphinomanes de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, une époque où l'usage des psychotropes n'était pas encore illégal. Les inculpés morphinomanes ont soutenu qu'au moment du crime, la morphine les avait rendus fous. Par contre, les experts ont cherché un terrain d'entente entre les arguments moralisateurs sur le libre arbitre et les arguments déterministes qui privilégiaient le rôle de la physiologie dans la responsabilité pénale. C'était le sevrage, la privation de la morphine plutôt que la drogue elle-même, qui était la condition principale de l'irresponsabilité criminelle du morphinomane. Par conséquent, la morphine est devenue un élément fondamental de l'individu morphinomane, et sans morphine l'individu n'était ni sain d'esprit, ni moralement responsable.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44941981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unproblematic Altruists?","authors":"M. Robins","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7689232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7689232","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the ways in which values associated with Protestant rescuers have impacted the historiography of the rescue during the Holocaust and the testimonies of witnesses. It considers two regions, the Poitou and the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon, to analyze three moral assumptions: the rescuer as resister, as generous host, and as respectful Christian. Using anthropological approaches to hospitality, it reveals the shortcomings of these assumptions. First, the association of rescue and resistance, though understandable, obscures the chronology, the unevenness, and the relative safety of Protestant involvement in the rescue. Second, the rescuers' assumed generosity simplifies the reciprocity at work in hospitality as well as the materiality of the rescue. Third, a systematic characterization of rescue as altruism or expression of philo-Semitism prevents a more complex exploration of the relationships between Protestant hosts and Jewish guests. In particular, hospitality as a form of rescue could certainly generate mutual appreciation, but also acculturation and tensions.\u0000 Comment les valeurs associées aux protestants français ont-elles influencé, et les témoignages, et l'historiographie du sauvetage ? Cet article se penche sur trois figures morales associées au sauveteur protestant, celle du résistant, celle de l'hôte généreux, et celle du chrétien tolérant, et ce, dans deux régions, le Poitou et le Vivarais-Lignon. En s'appuyant sur une analyse anthropologique de l'hospitalité, il révèle les limites d'une approche morale du sauvetage. D'une part, l'association du sauvetage avec la résistance, quoiqu'en partie fondée, néglige les variations chronologiques, la variété des formes de participation et la sécurité relative dont bénéficiaient les sauveteurs français. D'autre part, la générosité présupposée des sauveteurs obscurcit la réciprocité à l'œuvre dans l'hospitalité ainsi que la matérialité du sauvetage. Enfin, associer systématiquement sauvetage et altruisme ou philosémitisme rend difficile une interprétation plus complexe des relations entre juifs et protestants. De fait, l'hospitalité offerte aux juifs au cours du sauvetage a pu générer aussi bien une appréciation réciproque que des tensions et des formes d'acculturation.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41485727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seductive Arguments","authors":"Jillian Slaight","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7689156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7689156","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the early modern period, French law forbade unsanctioned marriages between minors, a crime classified as “seduction.” Men who wed without the consent of their bride's parents earned the designation “seducers” and faced the potential of capital punishment. By the mid-eighteenth century, notorious seduction cases assumed outsize significance because of radical changes in legal culture. From the 1760s until the eve of the Revolution, defense lawyers wielded the legal brief as a powerful instrument of public opinion, criticizing parental control over marriage and championing free choice in its place. These men transformed seduction cases into referendums on paternal power—and, by extension, the power of the monarchy itself. While historians have long examined politically charged critiques of paternal power during this period, this article explores these critiques' unique implications for unwed women. It illustrates how celebrated lawyers mobilized language of Enlightenment to carve out discursive space in which young women exercised autonomy vis-à-vis their parents. Nevertheless, it also argues that these same legal discourses constrained female happiness to the realm of marriage to sooth anxieties about the threat that disobedient daughters posed to family, social, and gender order.La loi de l'Ancien Régime interdisait le mariage clandestin entre mineurs, et un soi-disant séducteur qui s'est marié sans l'autorisation paternelle de la mariée risquait la peine de mort. A partir de 1760, les dossiers de séduction devant le tribunal devenaient de plus en plus significatifs à cause de la transformation des pratiques judiciaires. Utilisant le mémoire judiciaire pour influencer l'opinion publique, les avocats qui défendaient les séducteurs mobilisaient leurs plaidoyers pour débattre le pouvoir paternel et le libre choix du conjoint. Bien que les historien(nes) aient examiné cette critique du pouvoir paternel dans un sens général, il s'agit ici d'interroger les conséquences particulières pour les filles non mariées. Empruntant le vocabulaire des Lumières dans leurs mémoires, les avocats ont créé un espace discursif dans lequel les jeunes filles pouvaient revendiquer leur autonomie vis-à-vis de leurs parents. Toutefois, ces mêmes stratégies juridiques avaient aussi l'effet de restreindre toute notion de bonheur féminin au domaine du mariage afin de rassurer ceux qui craignaient le désordre familial et social entraîné par des filles insoumises.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44692916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The New (Emotional) Regime","authors":"D. Davidson","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7689184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7689184","url":null,"abstract":"The fifteen months between April 1814 and June 1815 brought multiple regime changes, military defeat, and foreign occupation to France. This article examines this period of confusion through the lens of lived experience, using correspondence exchanged among a small circle of family and friends to consider how they reacted to events as they were happening. The author argues that these men and women used letters and the emotional expressions voiced in them to develop a sense of shared experience and to strengthen bonds among their allies. However, those emotional expressions remained subdued, suggesting that a new emotional regime of bourgeois restraint was emerging to replace the sentimentalism that had dominated public and private discourse during the previous decades. A “keep-calm-and-carry-on” mentality reassured the letter writers and their readers that they could rely on each other as they persevered.Pendant les quinze mois s'étalant d'avril 1814 à juin 1815, la France a subi de multiples changements de régime, des défaites militaires et deux occupations. Cet article examine cette période trouble à travers l'expérience vécue en utilisant la correspondance privée d'un petit groupe d'intimes. Ces hommes et femmes racontent leurs expériences et expriment leurs réactions émotionnelles pour souder les liens avec leurs parents et amis, mais ces expressions restent restreintes, en contraste avec le sentimentalisme visible des années précédentes. Une mentalité de calme persévérance rassure les correspondants en donnant l'impression que leurs ami(e)s feront tout le nécessaire pour les soutenir.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46407057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policing Colonial Migrants","authors":"Danielle Beaujon","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7689212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7689212","url":null,"abstract":"In 1923 the Parisian Municipal Council created a special police unit to control North Africans in Paris, known as the Brigade Nord-Africaine (BNA). During its twenty-year tenure, the BNA controlled the North Africans they policed through intimation and violence, but also through personal knowledge of the community. The BNA's harsh tactics had to be balanced by its officers' admitted reliance on North Africans for information. This article explores both the uniquely discriminatory and colonial nature of the BNA and the nuanced, intimate relationships that developed between the officers and the North African community. A repatriation of colonial control, the BNA reified the difference of those it policed, uniquely targeting North Africans but also offering a space of possible agency for them in interwar Paris. The BNA gives us insight into policing in the 1930s, demonstrating the acceptability of targeted policing but also showing the limits of coercive power.En 1923, le Conseil municipal de Paris créa une brigade destinée à contrôler les Nord-Africains domiciliés à Paris : la Brigade nord-africaine (BNA). Pendant ses vingt années d'existence, la BNA employa non seulement l'intimidation et la violence, mais aussi des tactiques reposant sur une connaissance intime de la communauté, pour contrôler celle-ci. Le travail de la BNA exigeait un équilibre entre la répression et une entente avec la communauté nord-africaine qui fournissait des renseignements essentiels aux officiers. Cet article examine d'une part la nature discriminatoire et coloniale de la BNA et d'autre part, les rapports intimes et nuancés qui se tissèrent entre la brigade et les Nord-Africains. Rapatriant à Paris des formes de contrôle coloniales, la BNA contribua à réifier la différence des Nord-Africains qu'elle surveillait tout en leur offrant une certaine capacité d'action limitée. Etudier la BNA permet d'élucider les préjugés des policiers de l'époque, tout comme les limites de leur pouvoir coercitif.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48749698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Flighty Coquette Sings on Easter Sunday","authors":"A. Pesic","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7689170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7689170","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 French colonists in Saint-Domingue brought a variety of entertainments from the metropole to the island's theaters during the later eighteenth century. This included the Parisian Concert Spirituel, which replaced theatrical entertainments with performances of religious and instrumental music during religious holidays. Yet these concerts never caught on in earnest and began to diverge significantly from the metropolitan institution: the Easter concert in Port-au-Prince entirely composed of opera arias would have been unthinkable in the metropole. Linking developments in the colony's entertainments with the understudied subject of religious practices among France's Caribbean colonists, this article argues that strong market pressures overrode weaker religious constraints in Saint-Domingue, making opera arias acceptable for Eastertide. It presents a new fine-grained approach for studying how cultural practices are transformed when traveling within an empire, with implications beyond the history of the arts.\u0000 Les colons français ont importé une grande variété de divertissements de la métropole à Saint-Domingue durant la deuxième moitié du dix-huitième siècle. Le Concert spirituel de Paris, qui remplaçait les spectacles profanes pendant les fêtes religieuses, a été l'une de ces institutions. Néanmoins ces concerts n'ont jamais entièrement pris dans le contexte colonial et ont peu à peu divergé de leurs homologues métropolitains : un concert de Pâques à Port-au-Prince entièrement constitué d'airs d'opéra aurait été inimaginable dans l'Hexagone à cette époque. Liant l'histoire des divertissements coloniaux et le sujet peu étudié des pratiques religieuses des colons, cet article développe l'idée que de fortes pressions commerciales ont primé sur de faibles contraintes religieuses à Saint-Domingue, rendant des airs d'opéra acceptables au moment des fêtes de Pâques. L'analyse souligne la façon dont les pratiques culturelles évoluent lorsqu'elles voyagent au sein d'un empire colonial, tirant des implications qui vont au-delà de l'histoire des arts.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42411062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Une société sans pères peut-elle être féministe ?","authors":"A. Verjus","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7558292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7558292","url":null,"abstract":"L'empire des Nairs, publié en 1793, imagine une société dans laquelle mariage et paternité ont été abolis. L'amour et la sexualité y sont libres pour les deux sexes. Les femmes sont payées par l'Etat pour s'occuper des enfants. Les hommes, libérés de toute responsabilité paternelle, placent leur énergie au service de la science ou de la guerre. Lawrence, l'auteur de cette utopie qui connaît de multiples éditions en allemand, anglais et français, se réclame du féminisme. Mais une société qui charge exclusivement les femmes du soin des enfants peut-elle être considérée comme féministe ? Promouvoir l'amour libre, à une époque où l'on ne maîtrise pas la contraception, n'est-il pas une vision androcentrée de l'égalité des sexes ? On répond à ces questions en comparant les propositions de Lawrence avec la législation française et les romans féministes anglais sur le mariage et la paternité dans l'espace transnational de la cause des femmes des années 1790.The Empire of the Nairs, first published in 1793, imagines a society in which marriage and paternity would be abolished. Love and sexuality would be free for both sexes. Girls and boys would receive the same education. Mothers, not fathers, would give their name to children. Women would be paid by the state for taking care of children, while daughters and sons would inherit from the maternal lineage. Fathers, by contrast, having no familial obligations, would reserve their sexual energy for love, genius, or war. Lawrence, the English author of this utopia, considered himself a feminist. But how can a society that places the entire burden of raising children on women be feminist? Wasn't advocating free love, in a time with no contraception, an androcentric point of view? Only by examining the way French legislators and English feminist novelists during the 1790s thought about marriage and paternity can we answer these questions.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48373962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Child Sexual Abuse and Medical Expertise in Nineteenth-Century France","authors":"E. Cage","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7558315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7558315","url":null,"abstract":"Child sexual abuse was a prevalent problem that appeared before the courts with dramatically increasing frequency in nineteenth-century France. During this period medical experts played a much more influential role in the courts; however, those summoned to intervene in child sexual assault cases not only bolstered but also undermined efforts to bring offenders to justice. Many doctors who could not detect physical traces of sexual abuse concluded that the assault had not occurred and that the child's accusation was false. Furthermore, doctors routinely cast moral judgments on those identified as victims of sexual abuse. The understandings of childhood innocence that engendered new efforts to combat child sexual abuse were called into question by the simultaneous rise of medicolegal experts, whose frequent negative findings led many to discount accusations of abuse and to maintain that children, particularly girls and working-class children, were not as innocent as they seemed.Dans la France du dix-neuvième siècle, l'abus sexuel des enfants était un problème courant qui a de plus en plus préoccupé les tribunaux, où les experts médicaux jouaient un rôle grandissant. Cependant, les médecins appelés à intervenir dans les cas d'agression sexuelle d'enfants ont non seulement soutenu mais ont aussi miné les efforts de punir les coupables. De nombreux médecins qui ne pouvaient pas discerner de traces physiques d'abus sexuel ont conclu que l'agression sexuelle n'avait jamais eu lieu et que l'accusation de l'enfant n'était pas fondée. En outre, les médecins portaient régulièrement des jugements moraux sur les enfants identifiés comme victimes. L'idée de l'innocence de l'enfance, qui a suscité de nouveaux efforts pour lutter contre l'abus sexuel, a été remise en question par le respect croissant pour l'expertise médico-légale. Les conclusions souvent négatives des experts ont encouragé le public à ignorer les accusations d'abus et à maintenir que les enfants, en particulier les filles et les enfants de la classe ouvrière, n'étaient pas aussi innocents qu'ils en avaient l'air.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48523856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Elinor Accampo, V. Datta","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7558278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7558278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47347094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Republic Came for the Nuns","authors":"M. Sachs","doi":"10.1215/00161071-7558329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7558329","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During its first decades the Third Republic's relationship with the Catholic Church soured. While the Republic notoriously recast itself as a secular regime through removing clerics from the classroom, laicization also drove the development of public welfare. By examining the case of ouvroirs, charitable ateliers run by female religious orders to train and employ young women, this article explores the consequences of new ideas about welfare for working-class girlhood. In the context of rising anticlericalism, the Republic mobilized labor law and sent labor inspectors to scrutinize the nuns' treatment of their charges. The Republic's efforts to regulate these spaces represent a transformation in its treatment of girlhood, a recognition that girls' care could not be left to the private sphere. Instead, not only was it the Republic's responsibility to protect these girls, but this protection had a larger, societal imperative.\u0000 Durant ses premières décennies, les relations entre la Troisième République et l'Eglise catholique se détérioraient. Si l'écartement du clergé des salles de classe est un exemple notoire de la laïcisation républicaine, l'avènement de l'assistance sociale n'en est pas moins un. En examinant le cas des « ouvroirs », ces ateliers dirigés par des religieuses afin de former et employer des jeunes filles, cet article s'intéresse aux conséquences des conceptions nouvelles de l'assistance sociale pour les filles de la classe ouvrière. Alors que l'anticléricalisme devient de plus en plus présent, la République fait appel aux lois sur le travail et demande aux inspecteurs de vérifier le bon fonctionnement des actions entreprises par les religieuses. Cet effort croissant de la République pour réglementer ces locaux marque un refus de laisser le sort des jeunes filles à la sphère privée ainsi qu'une transformation de la politique sur l'enfance. Quand la République accepte la responsabilité de protéger ces filles des ouvroirs, la protection de l'enfance devient un devoir politique.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41744290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}