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Part II: Legal, Medical, Literary and Miscellaneous Texts Anon., 'Inquisition on one who Hanged Himself ', Th e Coroner's Guide (1756) Anon., Th e Durham Tragedy (1760) Charles Collignon, 'Of Suicide', Medicina Politica (1765) William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769) William Eden, 'Of Suicide', Principles of Penal Law (1771) Anon., Suicide, a Poem (1773) Anon., Suicide, an Elegy (1775) Anon., 'Concerning the Laws and the Coroner's Practice in Cases of Suicide', Considerations on Some of the Laws Relating to the Office of a Coroner (1776) Thomas Warton, 'The Suicide', Poems (1777) [Herbert Croft ], Love and Madness (1780) Anon., 'Th e Suicide', Adventures of a Hackney Coach (1781) Anon., 'A Letter to a Gentleman who had Attempted to Commit Suicide', Literary Amusements (1782) Anon., Reuben, or Th e Suicide (1787) William Rowley, 'On Suicide', A Treatise on Female ... Diseases (1788) Jane Timbury, 'Th e Suicide', Th e Philanthropic Rambler (1790) John Coates, An Answer to the Justification of Suicide (1792) Charles James, 'Suicide Rejected', Poems (1792) Charles Pigott, 'Suicide', A Political Dictionary (1795) Hannah More, Robert and Richard (1796) [ John Gorton], Tubal to Seba: Th e Negro Suicide (1797) [ Joseph James], Extraordinary Case of Suicide (1797) 'Suicide', Encyclopaedia Britannica (1797) Part III: Newspapers and Magazines, George Colman, 'Th e Genius', St. James's Chronicle, 10-12 October 1761, Thomas Chatterton, 'The Unfortunate Fathers', Town and Country Magazine ( January 1770) John Wesley, Letter to the General Evening Post, 22-4 July 1790 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Letters and Extracts, Letter to the London Daily Advertiser, 21 June 1751, General Evening Post, 17-20 August 1751, 'Of Suicide', Read's Weekly Journal, 14 October 1752 Letter to Gray's Inn Journal, 24 March 1753 Advertisement, Gentleman's Magazine, 25 ( January 1755) Connoisseur, 9 January 1755 Letter to the London Evening Post, 23-5 October 1755, 'Some Observations on the Causes of Suicide', Gentleman's Magazine, 26 ( January 1756) Letter to the World, 9 September 1756 Letter to the World, 23 September 1756 210 'Reflections on Suicide', London Magazine, 31 (March 1762) 'A Letter to a Friend, on Suicide and Madness', Gentleman's Magazine, 32 (April 1762) 'Reflections on Suicide' (continued), London Magazine,(April 1762) 'Thoughts on Self-Preservation, with Regard to Suicide', Annual Register, 6 (1764) Letter to the Public Advertiser, 23 June 1764 Letter to the Public Advertiser, 29 June 1765 Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 26 December 1765 'On Self-Murder', Public Advertiser, 16 August 1768 Letter to the Town and Country Magazine, 2 (February 1770) Hoey's Dublin Mercury, 10-13 August 1771 Letter to Hoey's Dublin Mercury, 15-17 August 1771 'An Essay on Suicide Committed by those in whom the Least Symptoms of Lunacy Never Appeared', Westminster Journal, December 1771 'Thoughts on Suicide', Town and Country Magazine, ( January 1772)'Essay on Suicide', Westminster Journal, 4, 11, 25 January / PART Contents

Reports from the Archives of the Bastille -- Reports of the Watch/Guard and the Commissaires -- Reports of the Swiss Guards in the Champs-Elysées and the Commissaires -- Reports of Commissaires Foucault and Desormeaux -- Gossip and slander -- Tradition -- Enlightenment -- Fictions.

Le Journal d'événemens de Siméon Prosper Hardy identifie 259 suicides sur toute la période couverte par les manuscrits, et constitue ainsi un moyen privilégié pour localiser les dossiers conservés dans le fonds immense des archives des commissaires de police du Châtelet. Cet article analyse seize cas de suicide rapportés par Hardy pendant l'année 1782, en insistant particulièrement sur les six dossiers qui ont été retrouvés dans les minutes des commissaires. « Le public » connaissait presque toujours des détails que n'avait pas retenus, ou que ne connaissait pas, la police parisienne. Hardy déplorait le geste funeste, mais refusait de condamner les victimes portées au désespoir par des problèmes de finance ou de passion.

In 1775, 135 wives and 35 husbands filed complaints against their spouses with the Parisian commissioners of police. Most of the wives charged their husbands with verbal and physical violence, and a few of them initiated lawsuits for separation of property and/or persons. In those cases, the depositions of witnesses document conventional expectations about gendered roles in the household as well as the dynamics of communication, representation, and justification in the neighborhood. Against the background of debates about the use and abuse of royal authority in the decades preceding the Revolution, the complaints and lawsuits show that the traditional family/state model not only downplayed accountability in principle but also sanctioned accountability in practice.

French preachers and philosophes used the parable of the prodigal son, like other examples of domestic order and disorder, to illustrate their versions of human nature and social relations. The preachers generally emphasized the necessity for obedience to and discipline by the husband and father in order to control sinfulness in the form of dangerous desires. The philosophes generally emphasized the opportunity for and obligation of families to cultivate benevolent feelings in husbands and wives as well as parents and children. In transforming the parable into plays and poetry, eighteenth-century authors addressed tensions in the biblical narrative involving the figures of the father and the brother. Du Cerceau (1703) made changes without changing the message. Voltaire (1736) and Daillant de La Touche (1785) assigned female characters essential roles in their adaptations, which illustrate changing family values.