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[fre] Résumé Plusieurs travaux récents ont montré que les effectifs de la noblesse en France avaient considérablement décru aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Mais le cas angevin prouve que cette règle doit être nuancée : si les densités nobiliaires diminuèrent en effet dans les régions les moins riches (l'Ouest et le Nord), elle augmentèrent au contraire en Saumurais et dans certaines zones du Val de Loire. Cette évolution s'accompagna partout d'un vaste renouvellement des lignages, dont la durée de vie excédait rarement un siècle. La noblesse médiévale disparut presque entièrement entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle, mais elle fut partiellement remplacée par des bourgeois d'Angers, qui s'anoblissaient en exerçant des charges municipales. [eng] Abstract Several recent studies have shown that the effectives of French nobility had considerably decreased during the XVIIth and XVIirh centuries. But the Angevin case proves that this rule must be blended. As a matter of fact, if nobiliary densities diminished in the poorest regions (West and North), they increased, on the contrary, in Saumurois and some territories of Val de Loire. This evolution came with a large renewal of the lineages, which rarely lasted more than a hundred years. The medieval nobility disappeared almost entirely from the XVIIth to the XVIIIth century, but its place was taken by the burgesses of Angers, who where ennobled with municipal charges.
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Laurent Bourquin, 1998.
"Les mutations du peuplement nobiliaire angevin à l'époque moderne,"
Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 17(2), pages 241-259.
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RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1998_num_17_2_1983
DOI: 10.3406/hes.1998.1983
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1998.1983
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