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Poverty and Charity in Aix-En-Provence, 1640-1789

Poverty and Charity in Aix-En-Provence, 1640-1789

Fairchilds, Cissie C.

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political

French HistoryGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1421431998
ISBN13: 9781421431994
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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