Final Report Summary - INJMCE (Between Penal Revolution and National Resistances. The Influence of the Napoleonic Judicial Model in Continental Europe (1808-1814))
To understand the true reach of the Napoleonic judicial model in Continental Europe, it was necessary to explore deeply the practice of the various jurisdictions and to study the activities of the magistrates in the different territories that conserved the French model after the fall of the Empire. Through this comparative and multidisciplinary approach, I wanted to analyse the successes and the failures of this implantation and shed light on the reasons why Napoleonic justice has exerted an enduring influence on many European countries up to our own days. Taking into account the time of research allotted (24 months) and my formal affiliation to the European University Institute of Florence, I decided to focus my work on the Italian departments, but without neglecting the other regions annexed to the Empire. However, this project would certainly lose much of its "edge" and relevance if I could not subject it to the critical gaze of other researchers. Therefore, within the framework of Marie Curie's postdoctoral fellowship (IEF), I seeked to organise meetings at the EUI devoted to the subject of the influence of imperial judicial model in Europe. During the 2 years of my IEF fellowship (2009-2011), I achieved several objectives planned in my research project. I organised three international conferences. Firstly, in collaboration with my research director, Prof. HG Haupt, I organised a Conference about "Popular Protest and Violence in 19 century Europe. Perspectives from current historiography" (EUI, December 6th and 7th 2010). Secondly, I organised in collaboration of Marion Lemaignan, EUI PhD researcher a Conference about "Historians & political involvement: a suggestion" (EUI, March 18th 2011). Thirdly, I organised in collaboration of Prof. Xavier Rousseaux (Universit? catholique de Louvain) an International Conference about "1811-2011. The Napoleonic Criminal Model and the Creation of a New European Judicial Order. Results and Prospects" (EUI, May 27th-28th 2011). The papers of the Conference "Popular Protest and Violence" will be published by "European Review of History" (vol. 20, n°6, 2013). The papers of the Conference "1811-2011" will be published by the "Archives g?n?rales du Royaume" in January 2012. In parallel with the conferences organisation, the results of my researches were published in one book and 9 symposiums proceedings. They were also presented in 11 International Conferences. With regard to researcher training activities, I organised a Working group about "Violence and Revolution (18th-20th c.) ". The goal was to initiate among the PhD students a common reflexion about the links between violence (physical, social or political) and revolutions (in its broadest definition: ruptures, liberation, reaction). The WG culminated on the 30th of September 2009 in the organisation of two conferences given by Prof. Olivier Roy and Prof. Jean-Cl?ment Martin. The 3 International Conferences that I organised, the different articles and the edited book that I published as well as the several conferences that I attended, improved our knowledge about the legacy of the Napoleonic criminal model in Continental Europe. Otherwise the different symposiums organised by the EUI allowed the meeting of a large panel of the most international recognised historians. These research fields were usually divided and had few contacts together. Therefore, in the framework of the conferences, one of the main objectives was to cross scholar traditions, to foster multidisciplinary and to multiply contacts between researchers specialised in French history, Napoleonic history, European history, Social history, and Legal history.