The analysis of the administrative procedures and judicial interactions the youngest of those accused of insurrection were confronted with after the 1848 June revolt shows that the exceptional judicial measures made possible by the decree adopted in the night of the 27th of June allowed for no special treatment where they were concerned. By wilfully refusing to treat them as special cases, putting the Penal code to the side, the Assembly, the military committees and the executive submitted these children to the same conditions of judgment and captivity as adults. But this State justice met with resistance on the part of the children who had been arrested, their parents, and even a certain number of their investigating judges, who pleaded the attenuating circumstances of youth and managed to reinstate within this emergency state of justice elements of common law. The contrast between the effects of an interactive justice and those of a justice from afar reveals the dangers of an exclusively paper justice where the accused are mere names with no age or face, and, for some, rebels with neither faith or respect for the law.