Après la Révolution. L’Inquisition romaine et la France dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle

This article assumes the French case in order to investigate the continuities and mutations in the functioning and role of the Roman Inquisition in the age of the Restoration. The definitive closure of the inquisitorial tribunals outside the papal states, including that of Avignon, did not prevent a few French ecclesiastics from experiencing the prisons of the Holy Office in Rome. But the presence of the "supreme" congregation in the French space, which prepared the intransigent turn of the 1850s, responded rather to the flow of instances in doctrinal and disciplinary matters; it followed multiple channels, and resented the political revolutions and the internal fractures in the French Church.