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CIAO DATE: 10/06
L’espion, frère du proscrit. Regards croisés sur la surveillance politique des exilés sous le second Empire
Sylvie Aprile
No. 53 - Spring 2004 - Cross Perspectives On Political Surveillance
Abstract
During the period known as “the second empire”, the surveillance of French political exiles is intensified and becomes a central preoccupation of French authorities trying to uncover conspiracies and secret societies. The life and the fate of the exiles can therefore be read through the archives of the French police. However, in this article, Sylvie Aprile tries to analyse this form of political control, not only by studying state-archives, but also by trying to account for the perceptions of the exiles themselves. She shows that, paradoxically, many of the “spies” trying to control the exiles are former exiles themselves. They share the same representations and norms which makes this form of surveillance even more efficient.