Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789

• Auteur principal: Fairchilds, Cissie C. (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Sujets: Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the impulses behind their foundation and describes h...