Les corps, les âmes et le droit Isaac de Razilly et les captifs français du Maroc au xvii^e siècle

This contribution describes the establishment of progressively normalised legal relationships between European Christian powers and the Barbary States of North Africa, beginning with the freeing of French prisoners in Morocco in the seventeenth century. It underlines the complexity of the human, political, economic, religious, and legal stakes in the interstate system created on both sides of the Mediterranean, as well as the role played by private individuals in legal and financial negotiations.