Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1971. In the 1970s, social historians of seventeenth-century France began examining the social changes in the ancien regime 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 ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. The Land
Chapter 2. The People
Chapter 3. Village Government
Chapter 4. Village Finances
Chapter 5. Poor Relief and the Plague
Chapter 6. The Seigneur
Chapter 7. Religion
Chapter 8. Revolution
Conclusion
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
