A ruler’s broken amnesty destroyed the last consensual basis for Bourbon legitimacy

Evidence

Imprisonment was especially disqualified for this role by the fact that it was, in practice, directly bound up with arbitrary royal decision and the excesses of the sovereign power. The ‘maisons de force’, the general hospitals, the ‘king’s orders’ or the orders of the police magistrates, letters under the king’s private seal obtained by notables or by families, constituted a whole repressive practice, juxtaposed with ‘regular justice’ and more usually opposed to it. … Nevertheless, imprisonment was seen, generally speaking, as branded by the abuses of power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 193 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pre-revolutionary French imprisonment was tainted by its ties to arbitrary royal power — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 193

Related

• Pre-revolutionary French imprisonment was tainted by its ties to arbitrary royal power (similarity 0.87)
• The Bourbon repression destroyed the last consensual foundation of Neapolitan rule. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Pre-revolutionary French imprisonment was tainted by its ties to arbitrary royal power #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 193