Abstract
This article, focused on ordinary men and women who attempted to drown themselves in the Seine in 1779, illustrates the problems and rewards involved in researching suicide in a variety of complementary sources, published and unpublished, produced by municipal officials and social commentators in eighteenth-century Paris. These sources allow us to hear the voices of individuals who tried to end their lives in the river and to see how others recorded and reported their stories. The article reads the sources comparatively and contextually, with a look at attempted suicides in the Thames around the same time. Axe sur des hommes et des femmes ordinaires qui ont tente de se noyer dans la Seine en 1779, le present article illustre les difficultes et les recompenses inherentes a la recherche sur le suicide dans diverses sources complementaires, publiees ou non, produites par les autorites municipales et les commentateurs sociaux a Paris au XVIII e siecle. Ces sources nous permettent d’entendre les voix d’individus qui ont tente de mettre fin a leurs jours en se jetant a l’eau et de voir comment d’autres ont consigne ou relate leurs recits. L’article propose une lecture des sources comparative et contextuelle, qui s’accompagne d’un regard sur les tentatives de suicide dans la Tamise vers la meme epoque.
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