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‎COLLECTION of 25 reports by the prefects on order of the Ministry of Interior. All published in the year‎

‎An X - 1802. Bound in 8 volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes bound in contemporary half calf, with gilt lettering, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, one volume in modern boards. Under the Bourbon's the controller-general's office had long sought quantative information about the French population and economy. By mid-eighteenth century, it was receiving from the intendant's subdelegates bi-weekly reports of the market prices of grains, bread, vegetables, meat, wool, linen, and iron and from the inspectors of manufactures semiannual reports on the production of woolen, cotton, and linen cloth. From time to time it conducted also special statistical inquiries on mining, metallurgical industries, paper manufactures, tanneries, forests, and hemp and on population (births, marriages and deaths). After many interruptions during the Revolution, the governments of the Directory, the Consulate and Empire intensified this statistical effort. Lucien Bonaparte and Jean Chaptal, Bonaparte's second and third ministers of interior, established the Bureau of Statistics, which lasted until 1812. Under an imaginative minister of interior, Chaptal, and a zealous bureau chief, Alexander de Férrière, 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 quantative data on the topography, population, agriculture, industry, and commerce of their jurisdiction in 1789 and 1801. This was to be 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 at all. Only thirty-five were ultimately submitted, and they were uneven in completeness and accuracy. Contains: Seine-et-Oise, par Garnier. (2), 39, (1) pp. (Perrot 658).Orne, par Lamagdeleine. (2), 56 pp. (Perrot 483).Sarthe par, L.M. Auvray. With 4 folding tables. (2), 254 pp. (Perrot 613).Ille-et-Villaine, par Borie. (2), 56 pp. (Perrot 288).Loire-Inférieure, par J.B. Huet. (2), 70 pp. (Perrot 351).Deux-Sèvres, par Dupin. With 2 folding tables. (2), 177 pp. (Perrot 666).Vendée, par P.L.C. Labretonnière. With 8 folding tables. 130 pp. (Perrot 706).Lot-et-Garonne, par Pieyre fils. (2), 64 pp. (Perrot 365).Gers, par Balguerie (2), 61 pp. (Perrot 256).Tarn, par Lamarque. (2), 101 pp. (Perrot 683).Aude, par Barande. With one folding table. (2), 26 pp. (Perrot 79).Lozère, par Jerphanion. (2), 79 pp. (Perrot 370).Var, par Fauchet. With 3 folding tables. 121 pp. (Perrot 691).Drôme, par Colin. (2), 48 pp. (Perrot 193).Hautes-Alpes, par Bonnaire. (2), 113 pp. (Perrot 32).Mont-Blanc, par Saussay. (2), 126 pp. (Perrot 423).Rhône, par Verninac. With one folding table. (2), 129 pp. (Perrot 566).Allier, par Huguet. (2), 68 pp. (Perrot 20).Cher, par Luçay. (2), 84 pp. (Perrot 149).Aube, par Bruslé. With one folding table. 116 pp. (Perrot 70).Marne, par Bourgeois-Jessant. (2), 129 pp. (Perrot 390).Aisne, par Dauchy. With 13 folding tables. (2), 144 pp. (Perrot 14).Bas-Rhin, par Laumond. 284 pp. (Perrot 536).Vosges, par Desgouttes. With 4 folding tables. 111 pp (lacks the title). (Perrot 723).Vienne, par Cochon. (2), 97 pp. (Perrot 714). ‎

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