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The article focuses on criminal policies established at the Senate of Chambéry, France, from the 16th to the 17th century. The author discusses how the Senate, a court of appeal created in 1559, was based on the French Parliaments model. Topics of discussion include an analysis and statistics concerning civil and criminal procedures from 1540 to 1792, which look at how the nature of a crime is reported by archivists, and determining infraction categories including the amount of criminal prosecutions until 1770.