Provisioning Paris : Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century /
Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed the greatest strain on the state, the society, and the individual-on the daily supply of grain and flour that furnished the staff of life. He...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1984.
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Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- 1. Provisioning Paris: Market Principle and Marketplace
- 2. Provisioning Paris: The Goods
- 3. Provisioning Paris: The Context
- 4. The Grain Merchants of the Ports of Paris
- 5. The Grain Merchants at the Paris Halle
- 6. The Mill and the Miller
- 7. The Miller and the Public
- 8. The Parisian Milling Network: Density and Productivity
- 9. Miller Family, Marriage, and Fortune
- 10. The Flour Trade
- 11. Economic Milling
- 12. The Bakers and the Grain and Flour Trade
- 13. The Brokers
- 14. The Police of the Paris Markets: Measurers and Porters
- 15. Conclusion
- Appendixes: Sources
- Bibliography
- Index / Quinn, Mary Ann