Légitimer les experts religieux, sous la République romaine

Abstract

Few diaries were written by peasants, especially under the Ancien Régime, which makes the existence of such a document so valuable. The diary we consider here was written not by a member of the farming elite but by a multi-active yeoman farmer, one of many such peasants living in Upper Normandy during the 18th century. François Jacques Maret resided in Bueil in the Eure Valley and was concurrently a farmer, wine grower, and sheep fattener. He scrupulously took note of his business transactions in what was in fact an accounting record covering thirty years of his life. This source gives us information on harvests and their sales (particularly those of wine but also of fish), and on the purchasing and sale of animals (primarily sheep), which became a crucial preoccupation for this diarist. The account also reveals the terms and modalities of payments, whether disbursements concerned the wages of servants or those of day laborers, or the settlement of market transactions in which Maret was involved as buyer, seller, and sometimes borrower.

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