This article uncovers a sodomy scandal that took place in the Benedictine abbey of Morigny, on the eve of the French Wars of Religion, in order to tackle an apparently simple yet persistent question in the history of early modern criminal justice. Why, despite all of the formal and informal obstacles in their way, did plaintiffs bring charges before a criminal court in this period? The article investigates the sodomy scandal that led to the conviction and public execution of the abbey's porter Pierre Logerie, known as ‘the gendarme of Morigny’, and situates it in the wider patterns of criminal justice as well as the developing spiritual crisis of the civil wars during the mid-sixteenth century. Overall, this article demonstrates how criminal justice in this period could prove useful to plaintiffs in resolving their disputes, even in crimes as scandalous and difficult to articulate as sodomy, but only when the interests of local elites strongly aligned with those of the criminal courts where the plaintiffs sought justice.

本文揭露了发生在法国宗教战争前夕的莫里尼本笃会修道院的鸡奸丑闻，以解决早期现代刑事司法史上一个看似简单但长期存在的问题。为什么尽管在他们的方式中遇到了所有正式和非正式的障碍，原告还是在此期间向刑事法庭提出指控？这篇文章调查了导致被称为“莫里尼宪兵”的修道院看门人皮埃尔·洛格利被定罪和公开处决的鸡奸丑闻，并将其置于更广泛的刑事司法模式以及正在发展的民事精神危机中。十六世纪中叶的战争。总体而言，本文展示了这一时期的刑事司法如何证明对原告解决纠纷有用，