| Title: | Corruption of the blood |
| Original Title: | Corruption du sang |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), pp. 278–279 |
| Author: | Edme-François Mallet (biography) |
| Translator: | Laura Otte [Drew University]; Timothée Charpié [Drew University, [email protected]] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Corruption of the blood." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Laura Otte and Timothée Charpié. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.597>. Trans. of "Corruption du sang," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Corruption of the blood." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Laura Otte and Timothée Charpié. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.597 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Corruption du sang," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:278–279 (Paris, 1754). |
Corruption of the blood is what the English call the stigma that has been attached to the offspring of a lèse majesté criminal. It bars the offspring from public responsibilities and functions, and demotes their noble rank if they are aristocrats. See Degradation.
If the king grants letters of pardon, these will prevent the children born after the pardon from being part of this corruption of the blood; however they will not rehabilitate the children that were born before the pardon.