Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonial by Jean-Philippe Garneau

“…Factors such as state power and (legal) culture are more specifically pinpointed to explain the uneasy rise of the Quebec bar. Secondly, the paper focuses on the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, at a time when some of the lawyers became prominent political figures, while others contributed by their writings or their defence speeches to the nascent colonial public space. …”
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