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Bureaucrats and Beggars - French Social Policy in the Age of the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities
launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning
their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups
in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this study,
Adams probes the accomplishments and the failings of these
so-called depots de mendicite, as seen by critics of the experiment
(including learned judges and influential spokesmen of the
provincial Estates) and as seen by those responsible for its
success: the provincial intendants, the royal engineers, the
doctors, the inspectors, the contractors, and various givers of
advice. He shows how the debate--both internal and external--over
the operation of the depots contributed to the intellectual ferment
of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. The resulting web of
reasoning and empirical data gave support to Montesquieu's
principle that the state owes every one of its citizens "a secure
subsistence, suitable food and clothing, and a manner of life that
is not contrary to good health."
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