TY - BOOK ID - 61193550 TI - Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 PY - 1976 SN - 1421431998 1421432005 1421432013 PB - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fürsorge KW - Armut KW - Social conditions KW - Poor. KW - Charities. KW - Oeuvres de bienfaisance KW - Poverty KW - Charities KW - Poor KW - history. KW - History. KW - Geschichte 1640-1789. KW - Aix-en-Provence KW - France KW - Aix-en-Provence (France) KW - Pauvres. KW - Social conditions. KW - History KW - Alms and almsgiving KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Charitable institutions KW - Endowed charities KW - Institutions, Charitable and philanthropic KW - Philanthropy KW - Poor relief KW - Private nonprofit social work KW - Relief (Aid) KW - Social welfare KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social service KW - Endowments KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social history KW - Sociology KW - Societies, etc. KW - Services for KW - Economic conditions KW - Aics (France) KW - Ais de Prouvènço (France) KW - Ais de Provença (France) KW - Aix (France) KW - Aquae Sextiae (France) KW - Colonia Aquensis (France) KW - Bro-C'hall KW - Fa-kuo KW - Fa-lan-hsi KW - Faguo KW - Falanxi KW - Falanxi Gongheguo KW - Faransā KW - Farānsah KW - França KW - Francia (Republic) KW - Francija KW - Francja KW - Francland KW - Francuska KW - Franis KW - Franḳraykh KW - Frankreich KW - Frankrig KW - Frankrijk KW - Frankrike KW - Frankryk KW - Fransa KW - Fransa Respublikası KW - Franse KW - Franse Republiek KW - Frant︠s︡ KW - Frant︠s︡ Uls KW - Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Frantsyi︠a︡ KW - Franza KW - French Republic KW - Frencisc Cynewīse KW - Frenska republika KW - Furansu KW - Furansu Kyōwakoku KW - Gallia KW - Gallia (Republic) KW - Gallikē Dēmokratia KW - Hyãsia KW - Parancis KW - Peurancih KW - Phransiya KW - Pransiya KW - Pransya KW - Prantsusmaa KW - Pʻŭrangsŭ KW - Ranska KW - República Francesa KW - Republica Franzesa KW - Republika Francuska KW - Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit KW - Republikang Pranses KW - République française KW - Tsarfat KW - Tsorfat KW - Γαλλική Δημοκρατία KW - Γαλλία KW - Франц KW - Франц Улс KW - Французская Рэспубліка KW - Францыя KW - Франция KW - Френска република KW - פראנקרייך KW - צרפת KW - רפובליקה הצרפתית KW - فرانسه KW - فرنسا KW - フランス KW - フランス共和国 KW - 法国 KW - 法蘭西 KW - 法蘭西共和國 KW - 프랑스 KW - France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61193550 AB - 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.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. ER -