Introduction: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft
by Barbara B. Diefendorf
1. Robert Descimon, the Annales Tradition, and the Social History of the Ruling Classes
by Jonathan Dewald
2. Law and Social History in Early Modern France
by Michael P. Breen
3. Local Officials and Torture in Seventeenth-Century Bordeaux
by Sara Beam
4. Urban Elites and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Dijon
by Mack P. Holt
5. The Notary as Rural Power Broker: Maître Coujard and Pierre Collenot, Syndic of Alligny
by James B. Collins
6. Reading Municipal Lists, Interpreting Civic Practice from the Insights of Robert Descimon to Seventeenth-Century Bourges
by Hilary J. Bernstein
7. Qui étaient les députés? An Unknown Group of Protestant Leaders on the Eve of the First War of Religion
by Philip J. Benedict
8. Civic Engagement and Public Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Paris
by Barbara B. Diefendorf
9. Unfinished Business: An Edition of the “Manuscript History of the League”
by Mark Greengrass, with Marco Penzi and Mark Critchlow
10. Gallicans Not Magistrates: The Dupuy Cabinet in the Age of Richelieu
by Robert A. Schneider
11. Intellectual Trajectories and Relationships of a French Historian
by Robert Descimon
Bibliography of Robert Descimon’s Writings
Glossary
Contributors
Index