2018
DOI: 10.1353/esp.2018.0034
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Forensic Poetics: Legal Documents Transformed into Strange Poems

Abstract: Browsing petitions, lettres de cachets, internment records, and administrative and police documents from the beginning of the eighteenth century at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Michel Foucault confesses in Vie des hommes infâmes that the reading of these archives disconcerts more than any literary text. These documents sealed the fates of ordinary individuals -squandered and abused spouses, disobedient young people -such as Jean-Antoine Tousard, who, after being found guilty of committing sodomy and being an at… Show more

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