Abstract: This article deals with a criminal case, as it was reported by regional and national press, in January 1876. It analyses the minutes of the legal hearing in the trial of the homicidal lovers Charles Ravey and Belisante Brenet, and it highlights the construction and the way of discourse circulation is shaped by the social status of the accused. This analysis draws on C. Ginzburg’s index-related paradigm and the generic properties of fait-divers.
