2005
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Roberto Martucci, « L'enjeu pénal à l'assemblée constituante : un chantier prometteur (1789-1791) », Dix-Huitième Siècle (documents), ID : 10.3406/dhs.2005.2671
Debates over the penal system of the revolutionary Constituent Assembly between 1789 and 1791 have not given rise to great historical works, except for those which concern the "intermediate legislation" contained in well-known university manuals of historical synthesis (Esmein, Laingui, Lebigre, Royer, Carbasse). The stakes of this penal debate shape the modernity of the right to punish. The important thing is to re-discover the specifics of the subject, which lie less in the "intermediate legislation" than in the constitutional nature of the penal question during the period of the Constituant Assembly.