Born in Montreal in 1974, Pascal Bastien is professor of eighteenth-century European history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). He has long been interested in the history of criminal law in the early modern period, but more recently his research has focused on popular mobilisation in Paris before the French Revolution.

‘This volume is a valuable addition to the scholarship on the Paris police as well as urban history, and scholars of either field will benefit from these thorough and well-researched essays.’Nicole Bauer, H-France Review

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsI. Occupying Space: Conflict and CompetitionLaurence Croq, Bourgeois and Policemen: Châtelet Commissaires in Eighteenth-Century ParisJulie Allard, A Space Shared, A Space Contested: Policing the Place de GrèveChristine Métayer, Taming Public Space. Social Exchange and the Marché-Neuf in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century ParisII. The Police and their Officers: Imposing and Negotiating AuthorityVincent Milliot, “A Breeding Ground for Spies and Informers”: the Châtelet Police and the Surveillance of Parisian SociabilitiesDavid Garrioch, Policing Religious SociabilityJeffrey S. Ravel, Accommodation: the Policing of Used Playing Cards in Late Eighteenth-Century ParisIII. The people of Paris: Negotiating and Resisting AuthorityLisa Jane Graham, Sex in the City: Policing Debauchery in Eighteenth-Century ParisBruno Belhoste, The Condemnation of Mesmerism: a Police Affair?Vincent Denis, Negotiating Fraternity. Paris Police and “Soupers Fraternels” during the TerrorMarco Cicchini, Epilog, Beyond the Parisian Experience: Enlightenment, the Police and Sociability in GenevaBibliographyIndex

Born in Montreal in 1974, Pascal Bastien is professor of eighteenth-century European history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). He has long been interested in the history of criminal law in the early modern period, but more recently his research has focused on popular mobilisation in Paris before the French Revolution.

‘This volume is a valuable addition to the scholarship on the Paris police as well as urban history, and scholars of either field will benefit from these thorough and well-researched essays.’Nicole Bauer, H-France Review

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsI. Occupying Space: Conflict and CompetitionLaurence Croq, Bourgeois and Policemen: Châtelet Commissaires in Eighteenth-Century ParisJulie Allard, A Space Shared, A Space Contested: Policing the Place de GrèveChristine Métayer, Taming Public Space. Social Exchange and the Marché-Neuf in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century ParisII. The Police and their Officers: Imposing and Negotiating AuthorityVincent Milliot, “A Breeding Ground for Spies and Informers”: the Châtelet Police and the Surveillance of Parisian SociabilitiesDavid Garrioch, Policing Religious SociabilityJeffrey S. Ravel, Accommodation: the Policing of Used Playing Cards in Late Eighteenth-Century ParisIII. The people of Paris: Negotiating and Resisting AuthorityLisa Jane Graham, Sex in the City: Policing Debauchery in Eighteenth-Century ParisBruno Belhoste, The Condemnation of Mesmerism: a Police Affair?Vincent Denis, Negotiating Fraternity. Paris Police and “Soupers Fraternels” during the TerrorMarco Cicchini, Epilog, Beyond the Parisian Experience: Enlightenment, the Police and Sociability in GenevaBibliographyIndex

Born in Montreal in 1974, Pascal Bastien is professor of eighteenth-century European history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). He has long been interested in the history of criminal law in the early modern period, but more recently his research has focused on popular mobilisation in Paris before the French Revolution.

‘This volume is a valuable addition to the scholarship on the Paris police as well as urban history, and scholars of either field will benefit from these thorough and well-researched essays.’Nicole Bauer, H-France Review

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsI. Occupying Space: Conflict and CompetitionLaurence Croq, Bourgeois and Policemen: Châtelet Commissaires in Eighteenth-Century ParisJulie Allard, A Space Shared, A Space Contested: Policing the Place de GrèveChristine Métayer, Taming Public Space. Social Exchange and the Marché-Neuf in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century ParisII. The Police and their Officers: Imposing and Negotiating AuthorityVincent Milliot, “A Breeding Ground for Spies and Informers”: the Châtelet Police and the Surveillance of Parisian SociabilitiesDavid Garrioch, Policing Religious SociabilityJeffrey S. Ravel, Accommodation: the Policing of Used Playing Cards in Late Eighteenth-Century ParisIII. The people of Paris: Negotiating and Resisting AuthorityLisa Jane Graham, Sex in the City: Policing Debauchery in Eighteenth-Century ParisBruno Belhoste, The Condemnation of Mesmerism: a Police Affair?Vincent Denis, Negotiating Fraternity. Paris Police and “Soupers Fraternels” during the TerrorMarco Cicchini, Epilog, Beyond the Parisian Experience: Enlightenment, the Police and Sociability in GenevaBibliographyIndex