Rising to the challenge set by its title, this work begins by redrawing the outlines of a complicated judicial system. The trials discussed in this book involved more or less taboo aspects of daily life toward the end of the modern era: sexuality, violence, the female condition, ideas of gender. Saint-Jalmes then turns to the fates of the victims and perpetrators after the trial, an undertaking never before attempted in the context of research on rape. The decision to adopt a monographical approach contributes to more embodied reading of sexual affairs on a kingdom-wide sale. A powerful and unprecedented investigation that lends history a voice and gives prejudices a thorough dusting-off.