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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Alain Faure and Jean-Claude Farcy. La mobilité d'une génération de français: Recherche sur les migrations et les déménagements vers et dans Paris á la fin du XIX^e siècle. (Les cahiers de l'INED, number 151.) With CD-ROM. Paris: INED. 2003. Pp. xv, 591. €35.00.

Historians of migration in France are hampered by the lack of information on human mobility. Unlike researchers in Scandinavian countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, they lack individual population registration records, and unlike German scholars, they lack the fine migration statistics produced in Prussia beginning in the early nineteenth century. Consequently, studies of human mobility in France have of necessity been limited to case studies, inferred from birthplace as listed on census lists and/or civil status records of birth, marriage and/or death. These sources suffer from the "snapshot problem" of capturing the individual at only one time. There is one source, however, that lists changes in residence for most men nationwide, which allows for a narrative of movement over one's adulthood: this is the conscription registers, which beginning in 1872 with universal conscription mention all men. Alain Faure and Jean-Claude Farcy have grappled with this formidable source and wrested from it an extraordinary national and local study of movement to and within Paris and greater Paris by the "class of 1880," comprising those men born in the year 1860 who reported their movements to the state until they were no longer eligible for army service after age forty-five, in 1906. This cohort was part of the second wave of rural people to move to cities, whose departures coincided with the great agricultural depression of the 1880s. The authors' findings are in some cases mild correctives to historians' misunderstandings but more often give new information and, in a few cases, offer real surprises.

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