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Local priests, mayors, and schoolmasters have often been portrayed by French novelists as objects of ridicule. In reality, however, the village notables gave norms to the villagers in their communities and personified the communitys values. The influence of village notables and the values they preached and personified ensure their importance in any view of French rural history. Their world was already in transition towards modernity, and they both guided and impeded the process.Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France tells who these notables were, where they came from, what they thought, what influence they had in local society, how they competed with each other for village hegemony or enhanced status, and what problems they endured. The book is a lively account, solidly based on extensive archival research and other primary sources. It gives the reader a feel for the era and the milieu.
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Village Notables in Nineteenth-century France : Priests, Mayors, Schoolmasters SUNY Series On European Social History
author
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Singer, Barnett.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0873956303
print isbn13
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9780873956307
ebook isbn13
:
9780585067643
language
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English
subject
Middle class--France--History--19th century, France--Rural conditions.
publication date
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1983
lcc
:
HT690.F8S55 1983eb
ddc
:
305.5/53
subject
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Middle class--France--History--19th century, France--Rural conditions.
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Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France
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SUNY SERIES IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL HISTORY Leo A. Loubre General Editor
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Village Notables In Nineteenth-Century France
Priests, Mayors, Schoolmasters
Barnett Singer
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS ALBANY
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1983 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Singer, Barnett. Village notables in nineteenth century France.
(SUNY series in European social history) Bibliography Includes index. 1. Middle classesFranceHistory19th century. 2. FranceRural conditions. I. Title. II. Series: SUNY series on European social history. HT690.P8S55 305.5'53 82-3195 ISBN 0-87395-629-X AACR2 ISBN 0-87395-630-3 (pbk.)
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Contents
Preface
vii
Chapter One Introduction
1
Chapter Two Portrait of the Nineteenth-Century Rural Priest
8
Chapter Three Portrait of the Nineteenth-Century Rural Mayor
37
Chapter Four Mayors Versus Priests: The Extension of Local Anticlericalism
67
Chapter Five Mayors Versus Priests: The Lid of Repression
89
Chapter Six Classic In-Betweener: The Village Schoolmaster of the Third Republic 1880-1914
108
Notes
147
Bibliography
183
Index
193
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Preface
According to George Orwell, it is always an excruciating thing to write a book, and I can only agree. The scholar who manages to complete a manuscript finds himself in great debt to a number of people and realizes that without them he would have been lost.
John Cairns of the University of Toronto first "turned me on" to village schoolmasters as a subject for a lengthy M.A. paper. I then fleshed out the subject for a doctoral dissertation under David Pinkney of the University of Washington, whose excellent editorial skills and counsel help give Chapter Six of this book what felicity of style and content it may have.
When I completed my final oral examination and was awarded the Ph.D. in 1971, one of the examiners said, in essence: "Why not go on to the other figures of significance in French villages (i.e., mayors and priests)?" Why not indeed?
It proved quite difficult to do. The French scholars who considered my application for a Canada Council research grant said the subject had to be done but that it would be elusive. That grant in 1977, as well as Canada Council doctoral fellowships in 19691970 and 19701971, helped give me the archival basis I needed for this work. I was also sent to France as a professor in the Northwest Interinstitutional Program for the spring of 1974, which permitted me to dip into the archives of Vaucluse at Avignon. A summer research trip of 1976 took me to other departments. Without the help of the marvelous officials in over a dozen archives, including the Archives Nationales, this study could not have been completed.
Partly due to the influence of David Pinkney, who reproaches North Americans for trying to match the French at their game, I have not succumbed here to what I sometimes call the historian's mania for comprehensiveness. The more one sees, the more distinctions one makesthat goes without saying; but it was not my intention to make this book a morass
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