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Marie Houllemare’s Justices d’Empire. La répression dans les colonies françaises au 18e siècle examines how justice served as a key instrument in consolidating the French colonial empire. Using transnational archives, she sheds light on local and imperial dynamics, analysing a variety of legal practices, from banishment to public executions. It emphasizes the coexistence of multiple legal systems and their interplay, centering on repressive means used in the colonies.