French History, 2026, 00, 1–3 Book Review Un pouvoir malhonnête: La corruption publique en France: Downloaded from academic.oup.com/fh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fh/crag029/8734179 by Frederic Monier on 24 August 2026 XVIIIe-XXe siècle By Frédéric Monier...
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French History, 2026, 00, 1–3 Book Review Un pouvoir malhonnête: La corruption publique en France: Downloaded from academic.oup.com/fh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fh/crag029/8734179 by Frederic Monier on 24 August 2026 XVIIIe-XXe siècle By Frédéric Monier Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2025. 250 pp. 24€. ISBN 979-1026713715. Originally indicating a failure of a society or of a public individual, usually in moral terms, ‘corruption’ gradually came to acquire the modern sense of ‘the misuse of public office for private gain’ and narrowed the classical and/or religious usage of the term to apply to general ethical conduct and professional probity. Until a few decades ago, it was largely overlooked by historians, other than those working in particular public sectors, such as the police and local government, but with the scandals of recent decades, most recently in France the conviction and imprisonment of President Nicolas Sarkozy for accepting moneys from the Gaddafi regime to fund his 2007 pre
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