On Racine’s The Litigants

French tragedian Jean Racine’s only comedy The Litigants (1668) is a theatrical caricature of the people of the law and of legal procedure at the time when Louis XIV’s councillor Colbert was undertaking important reforms of the judicial system. Litigious claimants, a maniac judge, a masochistic bai...

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Main Authors: Claude Witz, Martin Hlawon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2014-12-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/361
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