Un amour fou dans le Berlin des huguenots

Le procès de Robert Roger contre sa femme, Catherine Bureau, pour cause d’adultère

Fiammetta Palladini

Abstract

This article examines the court records for the lawsuit (1695-1696) against Catherine Bureau, wife of the Berlin-based printer and book dealer Robert Roger, charging her with adultery. After tracing the couple’s genealogy and introducing the acts of the consistory of the French Reformed church in Berlin relating this lawsuit, it offers a close study of the court records. The analysis offers us a unique window into the legal procedure leading to divorce in Brandenburg at the end of the seventeenth century, the daily routine of the Huguenots in Berlin, and the emotions of a woman crazily in love.

Keywords

Refuge, Berlin, consistory, divorce, adultery, women, microhistory

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