Antoine Renglet (1 October 2012-30 September 2015)

PhD Student
Research group: 
Département d'Histoire
Address: 
Rue de Bruxelles 61
5000 Namur
Belgium
Telephone: 
+32 81 72 40 97
E-mail: 
Work Package(s): 
Research themes: 
History of police forces and public order (18th-19th), Institutional history (18th-19th), political and social history 1750-1815
Research project: 

Police forces in Belgian cities from 1780 to 1814

For several years now, the history of the police force has met with renewed interest among researchers. In this expanding historiography, the practices developed by the various police forces in the context of their activity remains little studied especially from the end of the Ancien Regime to Napoleonic period. Yet in the countries that came under French domination, it was during this period that an autonomous, more centralized and standardized police force truly emerged. What was the reality of this police force? 
To achieve our research project, it is useful to take different scales of analyse. It is also necessary to gather archives from all the levels of power, from the local to the national producers of documents. This cross between many archives must bring a new approach in the history of police forces. That method should also bring new elements in this research field. Moreover, using a comparative approach should fill the gap that would result from the study of one city. So, this thesis focuses on the towns of Antwerp, Liège, and Namur.

Thesis directors: Axel Tixhon & Catherine Denys

Antoine Renglet successfully defended his PhD on 8 January 2016 under the title ‘Des polices en quête de modernité ? Systèmes policiers et ordre public dans les villes de l'espace belge de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à la fin de l'Empire napoléonien (1780-1814)’.

Picture: ©Cegesoma, image nr°169622 :lawyers in the courthouse of Ghent, 1941[Maes]

The Interuniversity Attraction Pole P7/22 "Justice & Populations: The Belgian Experience in International Perspective, 1795-2015" (BeJust 2.0) is part of the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme Phase VII (2012-2017), financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office of the Belgian State.

The IAP VII/22 Justice & Populations www.bejust.be is the outcome of a collaboration between the Cegesoma, the IAP coordination team (CHDJ-UCL) and the Royal Military Academy. Design: tangografix. Powered by Drupal