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28 mai 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pusl.19119
- isbn: 9782802801153
- eisbn: 9782802804154
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Stephen Wilson, « Feuding, Patronage and the Courts in Nineteenth-Century Corsica », Presses de l’Université Saint-Louis, ID : 10.4000/books.pusl.19119
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Corsica was "the classic land of the vendetta", to use Maupassant’s phrase. At least 65 distinct feuds occurred in the course of the nineteenth century. In the period 1826-1831 the incidence of crimes against the person was calculated to be nine times greater in Corsica than in the rest of France; by around 1890 Corsica’s homicide rate was four or five times greater than that of the Seine, the department with the next highest rate. Conflict of all kinds was extremely common, fuelled and large...