Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/abpo.154>
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DOI: <
10.4000/abpo.154>
Abstract
The crime of passion is one of the most present faces in the social imagination of deviance – in contemporary epoch and perhaps long before. It is also true in juridical speech as in novel and in press. When it is presented in the press, he takes the canonical form of “news item”. The rules of “news item” are distinctly constituted from triumph of the “big periodical press”, to count undoubtedly of the second third of the 19th century. The murder by Berthe Leclair of the mistress of her husband, in Rennes, at the beginning of the 20th century, constitutes an almost exemplary illustration like the criminal “news item” of the Belle Époque: a history of passion, an affair of sex with what one needs of transgression to draw attention of a (supposed) strict moral public but always attracted by the stories which contrast on his everyday (or at least which are assumed contrast), a case located in a inciting «bourgeois» environment to an identification, or to a creative form of distance of emotions, to number of readers, a demonstration of a certain form of female emancipation, and other elements still, here is what they find there. How the investigation and judicial inquiry constructed raw fact and how at the same time the national and local press make exactly it, how it becomes “a news item”, constitutes the question discussed here.