Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

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  Amor CHERNI

  Diderot : L'Ordre et le devenir

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  Despite his directing the Encyclopédie, Diderot's credentials as a true "philosophe" have often been called into question. His thought hinges on several key principles but bears on all realms of knowledge: the power and limitations of the senses, the...

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  Georges BONNANT

  Le livre genevois sous l’Ancien régime

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  Studies on the Genevan book market in Europe but going as far as Latin America during the Ancien...

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  Le corps violenté : Du geste à la parole

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  Throughout the Christian Middle ages, modern Europe and the colonial world, even more so after the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the ethnic cleansing, the image of the tortured body of man is omnipresent in painting as well as in history...

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  François BLUCHE, Jean-François SOLNON

  La véritable hiérarchie sociale de l'ancienne France : Le tarif de la première capitation (1695)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  The real hierarchical structure of old France, as it appears in the income-tax schedule of 1695. This document was recently discovered, its first edition became a classic, and is republished...

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  Jean-Louis BOURGEON

  Charles IX devant la Saint-Barthélemy

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  Jean-Louis Bourgeon’s latest study of St Bartholomew’s Day massacre. The French King Charles IX is presented conclusively as not the author of the...

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  Michel PORRET

  Le crime et ses circonstances : De l'esprit de l'arbitraire au siècle des Lumières, selon les réquisitoires des procureurs généraux de Genève

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  This is an attempt to take into account the contribution of the judges and prosecutors to the shaping of our modern legal system. While Voltaire, Beccaria and some other thinkers were putting forward theories of foundations of justice, magistrates...

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  Ferdinand-Philippe ORLÉANS

  Souvenirs de 1810 à 1830

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  Ferdinand-Philippe was the son of king Louis-Philippe of France. These Souvenirs were written when he was not yet 24 years old. He paints, among others, an ambiguous portrait of Charles...

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  Jean NAGLE

  Le Droit de marc d'or des Offices, Tarifs de 1583, 1704, 1748 : Reconnaissance, fidélité, noblesse

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  From 1581 the Ancient Regime officers had to pay a professional entry fee. The historical signifiance of the « gold mark fee » tariffs is examined here for the first...

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  Jean-Louis BOURGEON

  L'Assassinat de Coligny

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  Mr. Bourgeon's writings shed a new light on the political circumstances of Coligny's assassination, in the frame of his reevaluation of the St Bartholomew's day's...

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  Joël POIVRE

  Jérémie Ferrier (1576-1626) : Du protestantisme à la raison d'Etat

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique n° 50

  The intellectual and political itinerary of Jérémie ferrier, a protestant, who later converted to Catholicism, and became a polemist at the service of Cardinal Richelieu.