Full Description
In the eighteenth century, as the forms, practices and spaces of urban sociability emerged and took shape (such as salons, clubs, theatres, public places and promenades), police forces and policing practices were undergoing far-reaching changes. Though this took place at different rates, in different ways, and with varying intensity. Prompted by recent works examining the dynamics of communal living and social regulations at the time of the Enlightenment, this volume explores the transformations of urban sociability through the prism of police reform; not through direct convergences, but in the articulation of communal issues and the possible convergence or tensions between the processes that are more closely linked than previously thought.
Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris connects several different expressions of sociability with the practices of police administration to investigate the stakes, innovations, and relationships that disrupted and moulded the institutional and social frameworks of Enlightenment Paris.
Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgments
I. Occupying Space: Conflict and Competition
Laurence Croq, Bourgeois and Policemen: Châtelet Commissaires in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Julie Allard, A Space Shared, A Space Contested: Policing the Place de Grève
Christine Métayer, Taming Public Space. Social Exchange and the Marché-Neuf in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Paris
II. The Police and their Officers: Imposing and Negotiating Authority
Vincent Milliot, "A Breeding Ground for Spies and Informers": the Châtelet Police and the Surveillance of Parisian Sociabilities
David Garrioch, Policing Religious Sociability
Jeffrey S. Ravel, Accommodation: the Policing of Used Playing Cards in Late Eighteenth-Century Paris
III. The people of Paris: Negotiating and Resisting Authority
Lisa Jane Graham, Sex in the City: Policing Debauchery in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Bruno Belhoste, The Condemnation of Mesmerism: a Police Affair?
Vincent Denis, Negotiating Fraternity. Paris Police and "Soupers Fraternels" during the Terror
Marco Cicchini, Epilog, Beyond the Parisian Experience: Enlightenment, the Police and Sociability in Geneva
Bibliography
Index
