This text examines the effects of changes in local justice brought on by the French Revolution. It looks at the pre-revolution seigneurial courts and compares them with the revolutionary justice of the peace, finding that the revolution made access to justice easier for rural inhabitants.

Over time, rural dwellers came to accept the primacy of the state in resolving disputes, and the state thereby partialty achieved its long-standing goal of penetrating rural areas. 001 0271020881