| Title: | Rape, Breach of Law, Desecration |
| Original Title: | Viol, Violement, Violation |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 17 (1765), p. 310 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Danielle French [University of Missouri Columbia] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Rape, Breach of Law, Desecration." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Danielle French. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.971>. Trans. of "Viol, Violement, Violation," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 17. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Rape, Breach of Law, Desecration." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Danielle French. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.971 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Viol, Violement, Violation," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 17:310 (Paris, 1765). |
Rape, breach of Law, desecration . The first is a legal term used to describe the crime one commits by raping a woman or a girl. Breach of law is worthless in this particular sense. But breach of law is used to describe the infraction of a law, and is always followed by a genitive; he was accused of rape ; he was convicted of a rape . One does not say, he was accused of breaching the law or that he was convicted of a breach of law . Rather one says breach of laws, the breach of an alliance. Desecration , rather, means a violation of something sacred; one says a desecration of sanctuaries, of churches, of sepulchers, of religious custom, or of human rights by violating the person of an ambassador.