TY - EJOUR A1 - Camby, Jean-Pierre TI - The birth of modern bureaucracy - Balzac and the “duped public” T2 - Considérant – Revue du droit imaginé 2024, n° 6. varia JO - Considérant – Revue du droit imaginé (ISSN 2729-2177), 6, 2024 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16595-8.p.0149 SN - 2729-2177 SP - 149 EP - 157 AB - If the law holds a special place in Balzac’s work, this is through the description of human relationships that it limits or develops. It explains and even drives plot. It is a law of interpersonal relations: of property, inheritance debt, marriage, and contracts. However, from 1837, Balzac described bureaucracy in very contemporary terms, opening the way to a sociology of organizations: the birth of the administrative system is described through its actors. PY - 2024 DA - 2024/03/27 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - bureaucracy, administration, Balzac, nineteenth-century literature, public service, caricature LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/considerant-revue-du-droit-imagine-2024-n-6-varia-the-birth-of-modern-bureaucracy.html Y2 - 2024/05/20 ER -