This Saturday, January 25, at the Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, in the presence of Jean-Marc Giaume, Municipal Councilor, delegate for Historical Heritage, Archeology, Niçoise Language and Culture, Bruno Berthier, senior lecturer in legal history at the University of Savoie, will hold a conference on “The Senate of Savoy: the elder and model of all the Senates of the former States of Savoy.”
Founded in Chambéry at the end of the long French occupation of the Duchy of Savoy (1536-1559), the Senate of Savoy represents the eldest of the four other sovereign courts of justice of Turin, Nice, Casale, and Genoa established thereafter by the House of Savoy in the continental possessions of its states. As prestigious political institutions, these Senates governed the judicial order from the late 16th to the mid-19th century.
For centuries, the Senate of Savoy played a leading political role in the territorial cradle of the eponymous dynasty, beyond its classic jurisdictional responsibilities. It certainly represented a key body for relaying a princely will now installed beyond the mountains, but perhaps even more distinctly, it stubbornly defended local specificities to the Chancellery and the government of Turin within a heterogeneous political entity where the opposition between Savoyards and Piedmontese long constituted a sort of tradition.
This conference is organized by the Historical Heritage Department of the City of Nice
