Manuscript Census Materials in France
The Use and Availability of the Listes Nominatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C James Haug (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 258-258 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286604 |
| OpenAlex | W2325986856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
For the social historian of nineteenthand early twentieth-century France few sources are potentially more valuable than the listes nominatives, the manuscript census registers of the French population. Created at the level of the commune during the taking of France's quinquennial censuses, the listes are a name-by-name listing of each resident followed by information describing his family and civil status. The data collected in many of the censuses are comparable and through judicious analysis can be used for detailed demographic studies. Some historians might use the listes to reconstruct families, to analyze the size and composition of households, or to study the impact of crises on population movements. Others might use them to chart population patterns within neighborhoods or villages. Social historians completing mobility studies can use them to trace families through generations and occupational levels and to study shifts in the ecology of local populations. In general the listes constitute an invaluable source for all scholars interested in the structure and evolution of the French population.1
Census · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Demography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |