The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (12th July 1790) was a brutal rupture in French canonial life and is therefore often taken as an end date for studies of the history of the ordo canonicus. This dissertation, however, proposes to examine the reconstruction of the old canonial chapters under the Concordat until the disappearance of the old clergy in the middle of the 19th century. Indeed, studying the intermediary clergy as represented by the canonical chapters, allows us to gain a better understanding of the evolutions of clerical society from the end of the beneficiary system, at the close of the Ancien Régime, to the rise of the "notables" society. The dissertations follows a twin methodological axis. The first approach is that of eccl...