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Élites et archives judiciaires : notables lyonnais en conflit (1848-1860)

Sylvain Patural

Abstracts

The author presents the initial results of a research on the disputes in which the 19th century French elite was involved, in particular in the Centre-Eastern part of France. Going through the sentences of the civil court in Lyons between 1848 and 1860 has revealed 220 cases related to the elite, i.e. 0.68% of the cases for less than 1% of the population. The main distinctive feature of the elite was a relatively high proportion of disputes relating to unpaid rents and debts. The proportion of inheritance cases was not above the average. Last, a case study is dedicated to the dispute between two younger brothers — including a priest — to their elder brothers — one of them a canon — as both the elders benefited from an larger share of the legacy. Between the 18th and the 19th centuries, family conflicts had changed: they no longer opposed generations, but brothers.

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Sylvain Patural, “Élites et archives judiciaires : notables lyonnais en conflit (1848-1860)”Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 45-4 | 2000, Online since , connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/403; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.403

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