The Guerre des Polices: Jurisdictional Conflicts in Napoleonic Tuscany

Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Francesco Saggiorato
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2019/166 Language Italian
Pages 29 P. 767-795 File size 109 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2019-166004
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This essay analyzes the Napoleonic police, from a local perspective, through the study of the relations between the General Direction of the Tuscan police and the Arno prefecture. From a diachronic point of view the peculiarities of the Florentine case study highlight changes that occurred simultaneously at upper echelons of the imperial police and at a regional level, within the circle of French administrators in charge of maintaining public order in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The constant disputes between the two offices, concerning overlapping jurisdictions and forms of legitimation, significantly reflect the negative effects generated by the so-called guerre des polices, which risked to impair the efficiency of the imperial police system in the annexed departments.

Keywords: Police; Napoleonic administration, Tuscany, Napoleonic Empire.

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Francesco Saggiorato, Un’instabile pluralità poliziesca: le controverse relazioni tra la prefettura dell’Arno e la direzione generale della polizia nella Toscana napoleonica in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 166/2019, pp 767-795, DOI: 10.3280/SS2019-166004