2 options
Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century A Study of a French Village / [by] Thomas F. Sheppard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheppard, Thomas F.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 88th ser., 2.
- The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 88th ser., 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Villages--France--History--18th century.
- Villages.
- Lourmarin (France)--Politics and government.
- Lourmarin (France).
- Lourmarin (France)--Economic conditions.
- Lourmarin (France)--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
- Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1971]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Land
- II. The People
- III. Village Government
- IV. Village Finances
- V. Poor Relief and the Plague
- VI. The Seigneur
- VII. Religion
- VIII. Revolution
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 234-242.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-1132-5
- 1-4214-3426-1
- OCLC:
- 1123167579
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.