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Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village

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Thomas F. Sheppard
2019
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1971. In the 1970s, social historians of seventeenth-century France began examining the social changes in the ancien régime in an effort to reconstruct the events leading up to the French Revolution. Thomas Sheppard examines Lourmarin, a mainly Protestant village with a small textile industry. He seeks to answer a series of questions posed at the outset of the book: What was daily life like in an eighteenth-century French village? How was village government organized? To what extent did community leaders regulate village political life? What effect did the Revolution have on life in the village? Sheppard answers these questions with his archival work in Lourmarin. He concludes his work with an investigation of the effects of the Revolution on life in Lourmarin following 1789.

Table of Contents

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Cover

New Copyright

Half Title

pp. i-ii

Series Page

pp. iii-iv

Title Page

pp. v

Copyright

pp. vi

Dedication

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Contents

pp. xi

Tables and Figures

pp. xii-xiii

Abbreviations

pp. xiv

Introduction

pp. 1-7

I. The Land

pp. 8-28

II. The People

pp. 29-48

III. Village Government

pp. 49-81

IV. Village Finances

pp. 82-108

V. Poor Relief and the Plague

pp. 109-127

VI. The Seigneur

pp. 128-151

VII. Religion

pp. 152-172

VIII. Revolution

pp. 173-208

Conclusion

pp. 209-218

Appendix A. Etat of the Community, 1790

pp. 219-222

Appendix B. Inventory of the Possessions at Death of Pierre Vial, Bourgeois, Who Died October 4, 1685

pp. 223-225

Appendix C. Five-Year Averages of Lourmarin's Vital Statistics

pp. 226-226

Appendix D. Annual Vital Statistics for Lourmarin, 1681-1830

pp. 227-231

Appendix E. Arrentement Agreement Between Seigneur Bruny and François Colletin, 12 January 1789

pp. 232-233

Bibliography

pp. 234-242

Index

pp. 243-248
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