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Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Arlette Farge and Michel... Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/123/867428/0270123.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives, ed. Nancy Luxon, trans. Thomas Scott- Railton (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 328 pp. Is there a feature of the old regime more outrageous to modern sensibilities than the lettres de cachet, royal authorizations for administrative detentions without jud-i cial proceedings? How remarkable [it is], then, that the records of this practice sat largely neglected, for nearly two hundred years, in the archives of the Bastille, that defining symbol of the old regime’s demise. And on the eve of the French Revolution’s bicentennial, could there have been a more unlikely collaboration to exploit these records than that of Foucault and Farge? The charismatic Foucault, professor of the history of systems of thought at the Collège de France, had rap - idly become an intellectual celebrity and had built an international reputation that continues to inspire scholarship forty years later. The younger Farge had only just begun her career as a historian devoted to the allure of the archives, a topic not widely shared at that time. Here, in an afterword, she describes how, amid http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault

Sullivan, Charles R.
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/123/867428/0270123.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives, ed. Nancy Luxon, trans. Thomas Scott- Railton (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 328 pp. Is there a feature of the old regime more outrageous to modern sensibilities than the lettres de cachet, royal authorizations for administrative detentions without jud-i cial proceedings? How remarkable [it is], then, that the records of this practice sat largely neglected, for nearly two hundred years, in the archives of the Bastille, that defining symbol of the old regime’s demise. And on the eve of the French Revolution’s bicentennial, could there have been a more unlikely collaboration to exploit these records than that of Foucault and Farge? The charismatic Foucault, professor of the history of systems of thought at the Collège de France, had rap - idly become an intellectual celebrity and had built an international reputation that continues to inspire scholarship forty years later. The younger Farge had only just begun her career as a historian devoted to the allure of the archives, a topic not widely shared at that time. Here, in an afterword, she describes how, amid

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