Legal Interpretation in France Under the Reign of Louis XVI: A Review of the Gazette des tribunaux

Jean-Louis Halpérin (1)

1 CTAD - Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit

This chapter examines judicial interpretation of the law during the final years of France’s Ancien Regime: in particular, the 15 years of Louis XVI’s reign that preceded the French Revolution. I shall explore this interpretation through the lens of a periodical law report from the period, called the Gazette des tribunaux. To this end, first it will be necessary to present this publication’s political and legal context. Second, I shall analyse the evolution of methods of publishing judgments, before proposing hypotheses about the evolution of legal interpretation itself.

Domaines: Droit

Jean-Louis Halpérin. Legal Interpretation in France Under the Reign of Louis XVI: A Review of the Gazette des tribunaux. Yasutomo Morigiwa; Michael Stolleis; Jean-Louis Halpérin. Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment, , pp.21-43, 2011, 978-94-007-1505-9. ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-1506-6_2⟩. ⟨halshs-03281734⟩