IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/vhimxx/v57y2024i2p80-99.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Exploring French venality in the seventeenth century: Insights from a new database on offices

Author

Listed:
  • Emilie Bonhoure
  • Olivier Musy
  • Ronan Tallec

Abstract

Venality was the French system of sales of public positions called offices. It was a stable and central institution within the French Old Regime. Though widely studied by historians, the topic lacks large-scale quantitative analysis. In this article, we fill this gap by presenting a novel and comprehensive database of 17th-century French offices, which includes more than 15,000 offices and large information about their characteristics, the institution they depended on, and their geographical jurisdiction. We also propose three quantitative examples of how this database could be used. Following the proposed research agenda, our database could be used for quantitative empirical studies and for multidisciplinary work, including history, political sciences, economics and administration.

Suggested Citation

  • Emilie Bonhoure & Olivier Musy & Ronan Tallec, 2024. "Exploring French venality in the seventeenth century: Insights from a new database on offices," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(2), pages 80-99, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:vhimxx:v:57:y:2024:i:2:p:80-99
    DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2378794
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01615440.2024.2378794
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01615440.2024.2378794?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:vhimxx:v:57:y:2024:i:2:p:80-99. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/vhim20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.