Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735â"1789

"Richard Mowery Andrews's industry and archival commitment were legendary, even among the members of that formidable group. Only now has he produced--or begun to produce, since this is the first of two volumes on Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris--the major work that vindicates his earlier reputation." Times Literary Supplement "There is much here for students who want an introduction to criminal law and for anyone who wants insights into the judicial system." Thomas Brennan, Law and History Review "Students of French Old Regime law, crime, and society will welcome the appearance of Andrews' study of Parisian crime and its judgment by the Chatelet and Parlement of Paris--tribunals whose vast jurisdictions in the capital and its region made them the monarchy's most important judicatures...[Andrews'] study transcends the legal, political, or prosopographical foci of existing studies of these courts to examine their actual administration of criminal justice, and his conclusions challenge historians to reexamine long-held assumptions about Old Regime society and criminal law...this first volume of Andrews' study gives historians much to anticipate in his second volume, which will examine the crimes and criminals that appeared before the Paris courts." Journal of Interdisciplinary History