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Police stories : building the French state, 1815-1851

This text describes and analyses the careers of the police in provincial France in the context of the centralisation of the France state and the professionalism of the police in a period of remarkable change. It also emphasises the continuities with the Ancien Regime within France

eBook, English, ©2006
Oxford University Press, New York, ©2006