The 108 mentions of processions in Hardy’s Journal reflect both individual experience and a desire to document such events. These passages evoke the customs, origins, participants and routes associated with processions, as well as the attendant troubles and accidents. Processions were tied to both piety and politics. In emphasizing the Feast of Corpus Christi, Hardy borrows from Jansenist accounts such events. He portrays the fervour demonstrated at processions dedicated to Sainte-Geneviève. He uses a political vocabulary to describe the institutional balance that these events expressed, as well as spectators’ reactions—an expression of public opinion capable of sparking riots. The processions featured in Hardy’s Journal are therefore multi-dimensional phenomena : religious rituals, social acts and expressions of political culture.