Populations de banlieue, une histoire à revisiter

Who attends the wedding? Parents and witnesses of suburban brides and grooms (1880-1912)

“…The idea of this article is to provide new information about the people who attend the wedding ceremony, with a particular focus on the Parisian suburbs between 1880 and 1912. These suburbs are areas that have been the subject of relatively little research into family history or historical demography and they are still not well known (Boudjaaba and De Luca-Barrusse 2013) 1 , and especially for the end of the 19 th century, and even more for the beginning of the 1 Although suburban populations were the subject of seminal work in the 1980s and 1990s (Faure 1991;Jacquemet 1984;Segalen 1982), historical research has often focused on the massive urbanization and industrialization that suburbs experienced during the nineteenth century, especially from the last third of the century (Faure 1991). Furthermore, research on family history and historical demography has focused either on villages, 'a framework of acceptable dimensions for experimenting and reconstituting families' (Boudjaaba and De Luca-Barrusse 20 th century.…”

Re-reading the history of divorces in terms of territories (France, 1884-1913)

“…This will provide additional nuance to the distinction between the three basic groupings offered by the Annual Statistics on Population Movement. Research on Paris's suburbs is rare even though it offers a valuable framework for analysis (Boudjaaba, De Luca-Barrusse, 2013), especially from the second half of the 19th century, when their populations grew explosively.…”