This book explores the French monarchy’s role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm between 1670 and 1789.

This book explores the French monarchy's role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm between 1670 and 1789.

Drawing on rich archival sources, explores the relationship between honor and violence in the Périgord region in prerevolutionary France.

The first of two volumes centred around the two great courts of eighteenth-century Paris.

American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes read