"Quelques cas de séparation pour adultère masculin entre XVIe et XVIIe siècles : arguments et enjeux".
Résumé
Based on case studies centered on requests for separation of couples by the judicial means of male adultery or cohabitation in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this article compares two types of competent jurisdictions for this charge, one secular and royal, the other ecclesiastical; and two types of procedures, one accusatory and the other inquisitorial. For the first, the accusation of adultery refers to several series of failures of the husband which are of sexual, generative, economic and patrimonial order but also, moral and political. In the second case, the accusation is of a formal nature and a breach of the sacramental order, to the exclusion of other considerations. The cases submitted for judicial review show, on the other hand, couple practices that do not conform to official norms.