On the appointed day, everyone is ordered to stay indoors: it is forbidden to leave on pain of death. Each street is placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance if he leaves the street, he will be condemned to death. The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a town.įirst, a strict spatial partitioning: the closing of the town and its outlying districts, a prohibition to leave the town on pain of death, the killing of all stray animals the division of the town into distinct quarters, each governed by an intendant. “Panopticism.” In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, translated by A.
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