Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft 1
4. 1. Robert Descimon, the Annales Tradition, and the Social History of the Ruling Classes 25
5. 2. Law and Social History in Early Modern France 42
6. 3. Local Officials and Torture in Seventeenth-Century Bordeaux 61
7. 4. Urban Elites and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Dijon 87
8. 5. The Notary as Rural Power Broker: Maître Coujard and Pierre Collenot, Syndic of Alligny 106
9. 6. Reading Municipal Lists, Interpreting Civic Practice from the Insights of Robert Descimon to Seventeenth-Century Bourges 134
10. 7. Qui étaient les députés? An Unknown Group of Protestant Leaders on the Eve of the First War of Religion 158
11. 8. Civic Engagement and Public Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Paris 184
12. 9. Unfinished Business: An Edition of the “Manuscript History of the League” 212
13. 10. Gallicans Not Magistrates: The Dupuy Cabinet in the Age of Richelieu 237
14. 11. Intellectual Trajectories and Relationships of a French Historian 260
15. Bibliography of Robert Descimon’s Writings 283
16. Glossary 295
17. Contributors 301
18. Index 305