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DALPHONSE, (F.J.B.) Mémoire statistique du département de l'Indre, adressé au Ministre de l'Intérieur d'après ses instructions, par Cen Dalphonse, préfet de ce département.
A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de la République, an XII (1804). With 3 folding tables and 1 coloured map of the departement loosely inserted, and with numerous tables. 367, (1) pp. Folio. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, some wear, slightly damaged at foot of front joint, small stain on cover at bottom. Perrot 297. First edition. After many interruptions during the Revolution, the governments of the Directory, the Consulate and Empire intensified statistical efforts. Lucien Bonaparte and Jean Chaptal established the Bureau of Statistics, which lasted until 1812. It launched a massive statistical description of France in 1801. Prefects of each department were instructed to secure from subprefects, mayors, and local savants and societies of agriculture detailed descriptive (verbal) and quantitative data on the topography, population, agriculture, industry and commerce of their jurisdiction in 1789 and 1801. This was to become a vast cooperative inquiry with a twofold purpose: to discover what change had occured during the Revolution, and to establish for 1801 a cross-sectional description of France from which later demographic and economic movement could be measured. However, the reports came in slowly or not al all. Only thirty-five were ultimately submitted, and they were uneven in completeness and accuracy. The art of phrasing questionnaires to secure precise information was just being developed. The bureau was asking too much of slender prefectoral staffs. Some harried prefects, subprefects and mayors worked hard and carefully to answer the questionnaires, others did not. Nevertheless, a mass of data was accumulated that has not yet been fully exploited by historians. (See: Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, pp. 455-6). The volume deals with: topography, population, agriculture, industry, and 'l'état des citoyens'.    
Price: EUR 750   Book number: 16471

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I would like to order the following book: Author: DALPHONSE, (F.J.B.) Title: Mémoire statistique du département de l'Indre, adressé au Ministre de l'Intérieur d'après ses instructions, par Cen Dalphonse, préfet de ce département. Price: EUR 750