Annulment Suits and the épreuve du congrès at the Officialité de Paris in the Early Seventeenth Century: Judicial Theory and Legal Practice

This essay examines the controversial usage of a procedure known as the épreuve du congrès to adjudicate suits by women seeking to annul their marriages in French Church courts (officialités) on the grounds of their husbands’ impotence. Drawing on an analysis of thirty-two cases reconstituted from t...

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Main Author: Michael P. Breen
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Mnémosyne 2021-09-01
Series:Genre & Histoire
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/6498
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