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10.3917/pox.107.0007>
Abstract
In 1791 prostitution is de facto depenalisee, not yet mentioned either in the Police Code or in the Penal Code. However, when we adopt a reflexion to police work, it appears that prostitution phenomene is the subject of a reflexion and a sustained administrative definition from the Executive Board (1795-1799). The documentary production of the central police administration in Paris thus emphasises the constant vigilance exercised by the latter to the egard of the ‘prostitution scandal’ which it enunciates and denonce in its public relations. Responding to the depenalisation of prostitution, this discourse and the accompanying practices outline a new framework for action on prostitution. It is therefore necessary to take the scandal rhetoric of administrators against prostitution, i.e. to report on the normative logic and the practical foundations that organise it as well as its effectiveness in police practices, in order to apprehender the revolutionary policies of prostitutional phenomene.