Reaction seigneuriale and peerage-book

A reaction seigneuriale is an administrative reaction, a reaction peerage-book is a social reaction.

The reaction seigneuriale

Starting from XVIe century, and more strongly starting from 1760, the Seigneur S sought to restore old right seigneuriaux in order to increase their incomes, put at evil by inflation. The lords made remake these books burrows by the Feudiste S, specialists in the files seigneurales, the books burrows and the Arpentage of the grounds, by which the lords sought with better controlling the space of their Seigneurie S.

One relativizes from now on the importance of this movement of reaction seigneuriale, but the local revolts and the climate which they involve in 1789 would have started the French revolution. This reaction also contributed to cause revolts, like that of the red Bonnets in 1675.

The reaction peerage-book

A reaction peerage-book is a preserving start exerted by the Noblesse to defend its assets. The nobility reprints the concepts of class and social status by blood, and can make pressure so that the law of the kingdom (or State) is hardened in its favor.

Ex: Edict of Ségur (1781), France, in a context of the war of American independence and emulation of the ideals of the Lights, the nobility hardens its monopoly on the French Army.

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