A provincial village in eighteenth century France, Lourmarin, 1680-1800
Author : Thomas Frederick Sheppard
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Thomas Frederick Sheppard
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Cissie C. Fairchilds
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421432013
Originally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the impulses behind their foundation and describes how they were financed and administered. It also explores the lives of the people they helped. The study is based primarily on surviving records of the charities. These are the same sort of records that charitable institutions today accumulate: entrance registers, minutes of board meetings, account books, and fund-raising pamphlets. Records of the local and central government and court records were also consulted. One purpose of this study is to bring readers closer to the reality of the problem of poverty in Old Regime France. Another purpose is to historicize contemporary perceptions of poverty in the minds of French historical actors. Chapter 1 outlines the social and economic makeup of Aix-en-Provence. Chapter 2 deals with the attitudes and assumptions behind the foundation of the charities. Chapter 3 describes how the institutions were administered and financed, and the many important roles they played in the community at large. Chapter 4 describes the types of assistance available to the poor and the types of people who received it. Chapter 5 discusses the most important alternatives to charity for the needy—beggary and crime. After 1760, the traditional charities entered a period of decline. Both the economic and social realities of poverty, and popular perceptions of those realities, changed drastically after 1760. Flooded by increasing numbers of the poor, paralyzed financially because of declining donations and general mismanagement, repudiated by public opinion, and subject to increasing control by the state, the charities were ineffective and indeed almost moribund after 1760. Chapters 6 and 7 detail these developments.
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Copyright
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Aix-en-Provence (France)
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 1974
Category : American drama
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
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The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).
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Page : 900 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Xerox University Microfilms
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Dissertation abstracts
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