Burning Camera
The term Burning Chamber refers to an extraordinary court of justice created and dissolved by the king at various times in France (Chambre Ardente), within the scope of the Parliament of Paris, to judge the crimes related to the State and in its first times to judge cases of heresy. History
The name perhaps refers to the fact that the proceedings took place in a room deprived of sunlight and whose only illumination allowed came from torches. Another explanation would be that the term referred to the severity of the sentences, since the term fiery suggests the execution of the condemned ones in the bonfire. These cuts were promoted by the Cardinal of Lorraine and the first was celebrated in 1535 under the reign of Francis I. The ardent chamber cooperated with a tribunal of the Inquisition established also by Francis I and whose responsibility was to discover cases of heresy to take them to the ardent chamber. From 1535 to 1560 the ardent chambers were typical instruments of the Counter Reformation and for example the process of Nicolas Fouquet was developed in her.
The reign of Henry II was especially noted for the cruelties perpetrated by this court in the person of the Huguenots. In 1679, Louis XIV, within what came to be called the Subject of Poisons, created a new ardent House which was called the Court of Poisons; was to investigate the rumors that had appeared after the execution of the Marquesa de Brinvilliers (this court had nothing to do with the affairs of the Counter-Reformation). It was claimed that a vast circle of poisoners, gathered around Catherine Monvoisin (called "La Voisin"), was responsible for the misdemeanor death of some members of the French nobility. At last this court was abolished in 1682. The ardent Chamber was again reunited in 1716, under the Regency, in order to verify the accounts of the farmers in general: this last Chamber was also called "Chambre du visa", "Chamber of the visa". It led to numerous convictions for embezzlement, embezzlement and fines. By a judgment of the House the palace of Bourvallais in the Place Vendôme was confiscated, it happened to the dominion of the Kingdom and will become in the future the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice. The Burning House in Literature The German writer E. T. A. Hoffmann alluded to the ardent Chamber of Louis XIV in his novel Mademoiselle de Scudéri, which allowed him to vehemently criticize the special jurisdiction that was known in Prussia and he had suffered as a judge. This court has also inspired American novelist John Dickson Carr, one of his most celebrated works, The Burning Chamber (1937), adapted by Julien Duvivier (1962) under the same title.
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