LEADER 04606oam 22007334a 450 001 9910524852003321 005 20240209182459.0 010 $a1-4214-3199-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460873 035 $a(OCoLC)1122448673 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78155 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88874 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460873 100 $a20751128d1976 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789$fCissie C. Fairchilds 210 $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d[1976] 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 197 pages :)$cgraphs ; 225 0 $aJohns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;$v94th ser., no. 1 311 $a1-4214-3201-3 311 $a1-4214-3200-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 184-191) and index. 330 $aOriginally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the impulses behind their foundation and describes how they were financed and administered. It also explores the lives of the people they helped. The study is based primarily on surviving records of the charities. These are the same sort of records that charitable institutions today accumulate: entrance registers, minutes of board meetings, account books, and fund-raising pamphlets. Records of the local and central government and court records were also consulted. One purpose of this study is to bring readers closer to the reality of the problem of poverty in Old Regime France. Another purpose is to historicize contemporary perceptions of poverty in the minds of French historical actors.Chapter 1 outlines the social and economic makeup of Aix-en-Provence. Chapter 2 deals with the attitudes and assumptions behind the foundation of the charities. Chapter 3 describes how the institutions were administered and financed, and the many important roles they played in the community at large. Chapter 4 describes the types of assistance available to the poor and the types of people who received it. Chapter 5 discusses the most important alternatives to charity for the needy?beggary and crime. After 1760, the traditional charities entered a period of decline. Both the economic and social realities of poverty, and popular perceptions of those realities, changed drastically after 1760. Flooded by increasing numbers of the poor, paralyzed financially because of declining donations and general mismanagement, repudiated by public opinion, and subject to increasing control by the state, the charities were ineffective and indeed almost moribund after 1760. Chapters 6 and 7 detail these developments. 410 0$aJohns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;$v94th ser., 1. 606 $aFu?rsorge$2gnd$3(DE-588)4018801-2 606 $aArmut$2gnd$3(DE-588)4002963-3 606 $aSocial conditions$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919811 606 $aPoor$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01071040 606 $aCharities$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00852404 606 $aOeuvres de bienfaisance$zFrance$zAix-en-Provence 606 $aPoverty$xhistory$3(DNLM)D011203Q000266 606 $aCharities$xhistory$3(DNLM)D002608Q000266 606 $aPoor$zFrance$zAix-en-Provence$xHistory 606 $aCharities$zFrance$zAix-en-Provence$xHistory 607 $aAix-en-Provence$2gnd 607 $aFrance$zAix-en-Provence$2fast 607 $aAix-en-Provence (France)$xPauvres 607 $aAix-en-Provence (France)$xSocial conditions 608 $aHistory. 610 0$aPoor$aHistory$aFrance$aAix-en-Provence 610 0$aCharities$aHistory$aFrance$aAix-en-Provence 610 0$aAix-en-Provence (France)$aSocial conditions 615 0$aFu?rsorge 615 0$aArmut 615 0$aSocial conditions 615 0$aPoor. 615 0$aCharities. 615 0$aOeuvres de bienfaisance 615 0$aPoverty$xhistory. 615 0$aCharities$xhistory. 615 0$aPoor$xHistory. 615 0$aCharities$xHistory. 676 $a362.5/0944/91 700 $aFairchilds$b Cissie C$0140256 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524852003321 996 $aPoverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789$92676805 997 $aUNINA