| Titre | La floraison des foires et des marchés au XIXe siècle. L'exemple d'un département breton : l'Ille-et-Vilaine | |
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| Auteur | Marie-Louise Aubry-Breton | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 78-80, 1980 Foires et marchés ruraux en France | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Foires et marchés ruraux en France |
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| Page | 169-174 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Fairs and Markets in Upper Lozère.
Markets centres located in the north-west of the present department of Lozère are analysed here historically (from surveys carried out during the Ancien Régime) and in terms of their present functions and interrelationships. They complement each other in a number of ways, in terms of their geography, size and frequency and emerge as a fairly autonomous system, although open at the edges to the influence of peripheral markets. The reconstruction of the annual calendar of fairs from at least the 18th century shows their great permanence, their age and their role in the agricultural and social calendar. The spatial organisation of the market places themselves, the people who frequent them and their social and commercial functions are studied here using the examples of Marvejols and Nasbinals. The recent demographic and social evolution has produced certain changes whose effects are documented here. In a region where fairs and markets have always represented, alongside the church, a most important social function, it is to be feared that the present difficulties of agriculture at middle altitudes may lead to the progressive disappearance of numerous fairs, which little by little turn into ordinary markets. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1980_num_78_1_2635 |
