“After just a few minutes browsing through The Paris Law Courts (1894), you will find yourself wishing that similar books had been written about any number of institutions from the past. In 1892, members of la Presse Judiciare Parisienne, the association of reporters attached to the Paris courts, collaborated on a comprehensive account of the structure, workings, and personalities involved in the complex world of the criminal and civil courts. In twenty-seven chapters written by nearly as many newsmen, we are given a tour of a unique institution with guides as factual as Zola and as observant of human fancies and follies as Balzac.”
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