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In a positivist conception of law or in in how it is taught , we tend to think that the history of law is an "auxiliary science". But if it happens that past events remain in the current law, so it is ignoring the current law to know nothing of the history of law. If we take the example of the French Revolution, a major divide in the French history, is there still something in the French law? If not, then let the knowledge of the Revolution to historians. If so, then the practical handling of the current French law requires knowledge and understanding of the French Revolution and its ideas, which are still working through today's law, for example through then texts still preserved in its letter and in its spirit.

Introduction au droit.  The book of Muriel Fabre-Magnan is out. This is great. The law holds the attention of everyone all the time. Because daily life is full of law and there is the awareness of this. Because world live has a turn increasingly legal. Thus, the interest in the law is new, or at least has grown. But the law is off-putting for anyone who didn't study, who doesn't practice. This mass, which is enormous and as inert, seems belch through dramatic cases or convictions shattering. Thus, the desire to discover and to understand law seems meet a sort of end of inadmissibility, seems to be hampered by the legal matter itself. That is why everyone must buy Introduction au droit (Introduction to Law), the book (written in French) in the collection "Que sais-je ?" ("What can I know?"), by Muriel Fabre-Magnan. By reading this book of 124 pages, one can understand what may represent the law, not only for every day but also the law in society in a civilized world. The law is the key to a civilized system. But in a world which seems to be governed by the game of forces, the law is absent or just facade. Thus, reading, you'd think that the law is in fact very little … Read a presentation of the new edition of the Muriel Fabre-Magnan book : Introduction au droit.