Orders of the King of France, often arrest warrants

Disorderly families : infamous letters from the Bastille Archives / Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault ; edited by Nancy Luxon ; translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ; afterword to the English edition by Arlette Farge.

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Disorderly families : infamous letters from the Bastille Archives / Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault ; edited by Nancy Luxon ; translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ; afterword to the English edition by Arlette Farge.