Charity and Bienfaisance
The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740–1815

Table of Contents

List of maps, graphs, figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: charity and bienfaisance in the enlightenment
Part I. The Setting:
1. Montpellier and its region
2. The eighteenth-century problem of poverty
Part II. The Treatment of Poverty Under the Ancien Regime:
3. Poor relief in Montpellier and its region
4. The crisis of traditional charity
5. Popular attitudes towards poor relief: (i) charity
6. Popular attitudes towards poor relief: (ii) medicine
7. Government, poor relief and the repression of begging
Part III. The Treatment of Poverty Under the Revolution and the Empire:
8. Towards a 'welfare state', 1789–c.1795
9. Retreat from the 'welfare state', c.1795–c.1800
10. Poor-relief institutions from the Concordat to the Restoration
Part IV. Conclusion:
11. The government and poor relief in the early nineteenth century
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

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