The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789

Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1974. First ed. Octavo in pale aqua-green illus jacket; x, 414 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations; 22 cm; bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and index. Personal owner name and date to front free endpaper else overall near fine thus, in ner fine(+) jacket now housed in archival myalr, with faint edge wear. A sharp, tight copy. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0198225199

Well-written, abosrbing study. Much on theft, smuggling, begging, vagrancy (homelessness); prostitution; government support. Indigence. Poor -- France -- History. Poverty -- history Social Conditions -- history Pauvres -- France -- Histoire. Poor. Social conditions. Armut Geschichte Poor -- France -- History -- 18th century. Poverty -- France -- 18th century. Social history. 1700-1799 Geschichte 1750-1789. Conditions sociales -- 18e siècle. France. Frankreich