The Cattle Fair in the Vendée in the 18th Century. A Reconstruction of the Rural World. Cattle fairs and markets had an exceptional role in the Vendée: "the land of the ox". Varied pastures occupied sometimes 75% of the parish lands and from 15 to 30% of the farm's area. The density of cattle, one head per 2 ha on average, was much superior to the cereal growing openflelds. Cattle were reared mainly for tilling the fields, but those incapable of work were fattened up. Share-cropping (métayage), "institutionalised" livestock leasing which produced 8-10% profit, increased the number of the sessors: merchants, farmers (both fermiers généraux and partiels), officiers, priests, middle-classes and wealthy peasants. Some represented nobles who, ...
The historians of rural France have not shown much interest in cattle-breeding - its absence in synt...
Since the end of the XVI Nth century, intensive farming regions have suffered from an overpopulation...
Abstract During the first half of the XlXth century, Alsace was a region of low agricultural revenue...
The Cattle Fair in the Vendée in the 18th Century. A Reconstruction of the Rural World. Cattle fai...
Cattle in the bocage at the end of the Modem Era cannot be considered as a side activity. The study ...
National audienceIn the xixth century, the importance of cattle-raising in the farming economy of Ma...
The role of fairs and markets among the poles for the commercialisation of farm produce in France - ...
In response to the sollicitation of the archaeozoologists and to an invitation to a necessary reasse...
Frouzins : a rural community at the eve of the French revolution. An analysis of the 1784 survey pro...
Abstract With its uncertain boundaries and its contrasted landscapes, rural Aquitaine aroused contra...
The "Flemish" agriculture thus baptized, described and extolled around 1800 was actually bom in the ...
The essential feature in Ancien Regime rural France is the specialization between grain-growing coun...
L’histoire sociale du commerce du bétail et de ses acteurs en Brionnais-Charolais, de la fin du XIXe...
SUMMARY In Mayenne Cattle-dealers , have formed an original type of farms. They are very- extensiv...
International audienceShare cropping, a widespread practice before the revolution, which then was no...
The historians of rural France have not shown much interest in cattle-breeding - its absence in synt...
Since the end of the XVI Nth century, intensive farming regions have suffered from an overpopulation...
Abstract During the first half of the XlXth century, Alsace was a region of low agricultural revenue...
The Cattle Fair in the Vendée in the 18th Century. A Reconstruction of the Rural World. Cattle fai...
Cattle in the bocage at the end of the Modem Era cannot be considered as a side activity. The study ...
National audienceIn the xixth century, the importance of cattle-raising in the farming economy of Ma...
The role of fairs and markets among the poles for the commercialisation of farm produce in France - ...
In response to the sollicitation of the archaeozoologists and to an invitation to a necessary reasse...
Frouzins : a rural community at the eve of the French revolution. An analysis of the 1784 survey pro...
Abstract With its uncertain boundaries and its contrasted landscapes, rural Aquitaine aroused contra...
The "Flemish" agriculture thus baptized, described and extolled around 1800 was actually bom in the ...
The essential feature in Ancien Regime rural France is the specialization between grain-growing coun...
L’histoire sociale du commerce du bétail et de ses acteurs en Brionnais-Charolais, de la fin du XIXe...
SUMMARY In Mayenne Cattle-dealers , have formed an original type of farms. They are very- extensiv...
International audienceShare cropping, a widespread practice before the revolution, which then was no...
The historians of rural France have not shown much interest in cattle-breeding - its absence in synt...
Since the end of the XVI Nth century, intensive farming regions have suffered from an overpopulation...
Abstract During the first half of the XlXth century, Alsace was a region of low agricultural revenue...