Conflicts, Tensions and Solidarity Within the Judicial District: A Socio-Professional Study of the Judiciary of the “Belgian” Departments Under the French Directory (1795–1799)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on one of the novelties introduced by the French Revolution in the Belgian judicial landscape: the judicial district. It focuses in particular on the identity of judges and prosecutors serving under the French Directory. It then analyses the criminal practices of the latter through the execution in the Belgian departments of legislation on the religious police and specifically the issue of non-juror priests.