A History of Political Detentions in France

Creating a dossier about political detentions in France implies addressing a particularly difficult subject in the history of penal justice. It implies redefining numerous criteria, since the line that distinguishes common law from political law oscillates as political regimes change. When a penitentiary regime labels an infraction, a judicial body or a prisoner as “political”, it provokes a certain attention to the motives behind the transgression of the law. This attention to the motives of

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