Citations:mainmortable

English citations of mainmortable

• 2021, Kathryn Edwards, Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies, BRILL (→ISBN), page 185:

  As a personal condition, children born of mainmortable parents in free territories, such as Besançon, would become free, but their parents remained subject to mainmort as long as they lived.92 Although mainmortable status did not in ...

• 2017, Voltaire, The Philosophy of Voltaire - Collected Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato's Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression, e-artnow (→ISBN)

  Many a fine lady at Paris, who sparkles in her box at the opera, is ignorant that she descends from a family of Burgundy, the Bourbonnais, Franche-Comté, Marche, or Auvergne, which family is still enslaved, mortaillable and mainmortable ...

• 1824, Voltaire, A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton]., page 110:

  Marche , or Auvergne , which family is still enslaved , mortaillable and mainmortable . Of these slaves , some are obliged to work three days a week for the lord , and others two . If they die without children , their wealth belongs to ...

• 2016, William Chester Jordan, From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Senonais in the Thirteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press (→ISBN), page 21:

  A mainmortable dependent might by custom even alienate a portion of his chattels by will to the church — a privilege that was by no means unique to the Sénonais . Paul Hyams has discussed the same custom in England .

• 2017, Jerome Blum, The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe, Princeton University Press (→ISBN), page 35:

  In 1781 in Burgundy 3,421 of the 9,331 communities were of mainmortables. Smaller numbers were scattered through other parts of eastern and central France and there were peasants in Brittany whose status, called quevaise, ...

• 1918, Victor Duruy, A Short History of France, page 204:

  On the death of mainmortables all their possessions passed to the overlord . For them there was no way of escape from the hard hand which bent them to the plough . They only possessed the right of making suit which attached to their ...

• 1882, William Babcock Weeden, The Social Law of Labor, page 83:

  There are two kinds of mainmortables , those made so only by contact with the inheritance , who make no part of the estate , but become free or untaxed by renouncing the inheritance; and the other kind , body serfs , who were enumerated as a ...

• 1950, Ambrose Saricks, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours and the French Revolution

  ... were to be subject to this tax, but, in return, the debts of the clergy were to be retired by redemption of some of the seigniorial rights inhering in them (rents of mainmortables. alienation of rights of Justice and of the chase).

• 2005, F. Schui, Early Debates about Industry: Voltaire and His Contemporaries, Springer (→ISBN), page 158:

  It needs to be noted that Voltaire and Christin called the inhabitants of Saint-Claude 'serfs' despite the fact that their precise status was that of mainmortables. As opposed to serfs mainmortables were allowed limited ownership of ...

• 1956, Paul Bamford, Forests and French Sea Power, 1660-1789, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN)

  “Generally,” one writer remarked in 1776, “the functions of [forestry officers] ... are confined to that which concerns the forests of the king and those woodlands in the hands of mainmortables.” These were “the only forests overseen”; ...