This article describes the construction and content of an atlas of local jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France: bailliages. Bailliages were at the center of the Ancien Régime's jurisdictional apparatus: they administered the ordinary royal justice, delineated the area of influence of heterogeneous customary laws, and served as electoral constituencies for the Estates General of 1614 and 1789. Yet, their territorial extent was relatively unknown to the royal authority, leading early scholars to assert the impossibility of mapping the geography of bailliages. Based on Armand Brette's Atlas des bailliages et juridictions assimilées published in 1904, we develop a historical geographic information system containing shapefiles and associated data files of bailliage courts at the time of the convocation of the Estates General of 1789. This new source has many potential applications, including mapping the different legal systems that coexisted in France, such as Roman law in pays de droit écrit and customary law in pays de droit coutumier, and studying elections to the Estates General of 1789.
The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France
Résumé
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This article describes the construction and content of an atlas of local jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France: bailliages. Bailliages were at the center of the Ancien Régime's jurisdictional apparatus: they administered the ordinary royal justice, delineated the area of influence of heterogeneous customary laws, and served as electoral constituencies for the Estates General of 1614 and 1789. Yet, their territorial extent was relatively unknown to the royal authority, leading early scholars to assert the impossibility of mapping the geography of bailliages. Based on Armand Brette's Atlas des bailliages et juridictions assimilées published in 1904, we develop a historical geographic information system containing shapefiles and associated data files of bailliage courts at the time of the convocation of the Estates General of 1789. This new source has many potential applications, including mapping the different legal systems that coexisted in France, such as Roman law in pays de droit écrit and customary law in pays de droit coutumier, and studying elections to the Estates General of 1789.
Auteur(s)
Victor Gay1, 2
, Paula Gobbi3, 4
, Marc Goñi5, 4
1
IAST -
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
( 506116 )
- 1, esplanade de l'Université
31080 Toulouse Cedex 06
- France
2
TSE-R -
Toulouse School of Economics
( 1002422 )
- Manufacture de Tabacs, 21 allées de Brienne 31000 Toulouse
- France
Université Toulouse Capitole ( 81148 )
;
Université de Toulouse ( 443875 )
;
École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR5314 ( 441569 )
;
Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement UMR1415 ( 577435 )
3
ULB -
Université libre de Bruxelles
( 303388 )
- Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Bruxelles
- Belgique
4
CEPR -
Center for Economic Policy Research
( 143559 )
- Royaume-Uni
CEPR ( 322082 )
5
UiB -
University of Bergen
( 300728 )
- Universitetet i Bergen | Postboks 7800, NO-5020 Bergen
- Norvège
Date de production/écriture
2023-11-14
Vulgarisation
Non
Comité de lecture
Oui
Audience
Internationale
Langue du document
Anglais
Licence
Paternité
Nom de la revue
Journal of Historical Geography
(ISSN : 0305-7488, ISSN électronique : 1095-8614)
Publié par Elsevier
Revue non référencée dans Sherpa-Romeo
Victor Gay, Paula Gobbi, Marc Goñi. The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France. Journal of Historical Geography, 2024, 84, pp.49-60. ⟨10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.008⟩. ⟨hal-04285825v2⟩