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Civil Marriages and Choice of Witnesses in a Suburban Commune in Ile-de-France 19th Century
| I propose to analyse the question of sociability in a nineteenth century suburban commune near Paris : Ivry-sur- Seine. This village becomes a industrial city in the end of the 19th century. That means native people (who has family and a genealogic history in this commune, but often goods and houses) meets a new population (often without relatives, often poor). Using civil marriage acts, I’ll study the integration/assimilation between sedentary populations and arriving populations. I’ll use two indicators : the choice of spouse and the choice of witnesses in the marriage ceremony and I’ll compare matrimonial networks and witnesses networks at different periods during the 19th century
The aim is to understand the specificity of suburban sociability because, by difference with city center populations, at the begining of the Industrial Revolution , the suburban communes have a sedentary population (often rural population), clearly identified, which faces to important arriving population changing radically the economic and social structures in these communes.
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