To present Humanity in its full expression, was Schiller's intent in rewriting and adapting, in the form of a novel or a tale, according to the spirit of Enlightenment, these legal cases, taken from the exhaustive volumes of real life cases compiled by Pitaval. In eight remarkable legal cases which portray the human being in all his erring and excesses, we see the author reinterpreting, in the spirit of a human friendly observer, past legal judgements which call upon the use of newly discovered sociological field, as well as new legal principles, in order to reconcile Humanity with legality. The stated aim was then, to educate the citizen into making enlightened judgment about crimes and criminals, to allow him to behave as human and responsible judge of his fellows in society.
The Brinvillier case The sad destiny of Jacob LeBrun The Guerre case A commercial contract with God The Gange case The LaPivardière case The odd couple A corrupt state employee
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Frederick Schiller. The Pitaval Casebook
Frederick Schiller
Introduction to the first part of the Pitaval most remarkable cases
The Brinvillier case
The sad destiny of Jacob LeBrun
The Guerre case
The commercial contract with God
The Gange case
The LaPivardière case
The odd couple
A corrupt civil servant
Chronology
The Essential in 200 Quotes
The Essays on Aesthetics
The Short Stories
The Essays on Literary Style
The Essays on the Sublime
The Essays on Governance and Human Society
The 30-Year War
The Secession of the Netherlands from Spanish Ruling
The Pitaval Casebook
The Other Historical Essays
The Poems
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The Pitaval Casebook
There are also spiritless, tasteless and morally corrupting novels, dramatized historical accounts, so called ladies' literature and anything similar which make up a great part of the books in libraries and which will completely destroy the small, remaining portion of more healthier principles which our theatrical poets have spared.
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Other witnesses told that during his master's illness, as LaChaussée was called by him, he has answered the following, using a terrible and despicable nickname which he has given his master: “He is already weak, but gives us still a lot to do, I know not when he will make his last farewell.” And after his death, as he has covered him with a linen, he has said the namely shameful words: “Now, he is dead! I will allow him to be buried; I have honestly shaken him; during his lifetime, I would have never sha-
