Toulouse: Carry out the investigation at the Municipal Archives on the violent deaths in the time of the Capitouls
The Municipal Archives of Toulouse invite the public, until the end of November, to a participatory workshop around Murders à la carte.
Since its launch in 2019 Murder on demand offers everyone the opportunity to learn about and locate online a number of violent murders (suicides, traffic accidents, etc.), recorded in Toulouse between 1670 and 1790 at the time of the Capitouls.
Through this initiative, the Toulouse Municipal Archives invite the public, until the end of November, to come and participate directly in this unprecedented adventure through participatory workshops named with humor. You won’t kill… but you can always try!. The goal: to participate from start to finish in a criminal case and relive step by step of legal proceedings. A thrilling two-hour moment (9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.). “Each participant has access to the documents of criminal procedure (transcription of the autopsy, verification of testimonies, sentences), details the person in charge of the old Archives who animates the session. It can extract the useful data from it and gather all the elements necessary for the creation of a new entry in Murder on demand on the UrbanHist site and thus intervene directly in the enrichment of the interactive map of violent deaths in Toulouse in the 18th century. The public even has access to the famous trial bag, made of burlap which housed all the documents for archiving. Hence the expression “the case is in the bag”.
A Toulouse-style Bluebeard?
Each Saturday, they are thus between five, six people to come to the Archives, to investigate a new case. “There are all kinds of audiences, including a lot of students, police officers, firefighters, writers, computer scientists. Last week, an herbalist came with a passion for the subject ”.
Seventy of these cases are already visible and the UrbanHist site continues to grow. In all these cases, from the Capitouls archives, we can for example underline this feminicide in rue Alfred Dumeril in 1748 where a man had stabbed several wounds in the chest of his wife. “We are constantly discovering new business”, such as the file Pierrot, the living dead of Gascony, a summary execution at the Tournefeuille bridge on January 22, 1733, treated in October. The November program is rich like next Saturday with the dossier A Toulouse-style Blue Beard? around four feminicides committed on the alleys Charles de Fitte in 1730, which will be studied. Good inquiries.
Program in November: “Un Barbe-Bleue à la Toulouse?”, “Fatal accident between the two gates of Saint-Cyprien”, “The devotee in too much of a hurry to reach the sky”, etc.
Information and compulsory registration at https: //www.archives.toulouse.fr/espace-presse