Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the first impression
- Preface to the second impression
- 1 Introduction: The history of the family
- 2 Some demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach
- 3 The evolution of the family
- ENGLAND
- WESTERN EUROPE
- 8 A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644
- 9 Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861
- 10 Household and family in Tuscany in 1427
- 11 Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769–71
- 12 Variations in the size and structure of the household in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 13 Size of households before the industrial revolution: the case of Liège in 1801
- SERBIA
- JAPAN
- NORTH AMERICA
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the first impression
- Preface to the second impression
- 1 Introduction: The history of the family
- 2 Some demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach
- 3 The evolution of the family
- ENGLAND
- WESTERN EUROPE
- 8 A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644
- 9 Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861
- 10 Household and family in Tuscany in 1427
- 11 Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769–71
- 12 Variations in the size and structure of the household in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 13 Size of households before the industrial revolution: the case of Liège in 1801
- SERBIA
- JAPAN
- NORTH AMERICA
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL FRAMEWORK
The parish of Montplaisant (see Fig. 8.1) which has become a civil commune without changing its boundaries, is situated in Périgord Noir, four kilometres south of the lesser Dordogne river, and two kilometres north of Belvés. Half of its area is on a plateau, and the other half in the valley of the Nauze, a little tributary which flows from the left into the Dordogne. On the plateau the soil is light and chalky, but in the valley it is a heavy fertile clay. Housing is scattered in hamlets of one or two households all over the territory of the commune. There is no large settlement in it, and apparently there never has been. In the valley, on the Nauze and its tributaries, there are many mills to be found. Before the Revolution not only did the parish belong to the castellany of Belvés but also formed an integral part of the community of Belvés. It was administered on the one hand by the aldermen, the mayor and his deputies and on the other by the Bailiff of the Archbishop of Bordeaux, who was the liege lord of the castellany.
THE POPULATION IN 1644
The document which has been used for this chapter is a liber status animarum (état des âmes) for the parish of Montplaisant drawn up in 1644 by Murat, the parish priest.
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- Household and Family in Past Times , pp. 237 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972
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