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The investigation of the Regent (1716-1718) LH

Survey of Regent (1716-1718).

Science, Technology and Politics in France pre-industrial
by Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère
and David. J.
editions Sturdy, Brepols, 2008

Here is a remarkable book that I received as a deposit for the room inventory section of the nineteenth century. I had not then stored without informing my colleagues of its release ...

The case could have stopped there if I had not attended a study day organized by the League of pupils and friends of History of Technology Center in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers (SeaCDHTE) 20 January to present the 16th issue of their Review Documents for the history of technology newly published. Bruno was invited to Belhoste " sources, new approaches and new research tools on the archives of Mines . I write now a new research tool on the General Council of Mines ( read this post) and I intend to just listen and then take to their heels.

But it turns out that he arrived late and we begged Madame Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère (an author with David J. Sturdy) to present his work The investigation of the Regent ... And I immediately regretted the trip to France this pre-industrial eighteenth century that gave us Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère a lively and intelligent. So

responsible for the archives of the Academy of Sciences, it was discovered in the mass of correspondence and memoranda three cartons of archives of this survey, commissioned by Philip of Orleans, who have long remained almost unknown historians. Yet, she says, this investigation " is a source of primary importance to economic and social history of France in the early eighteenth century" And also the general history of the Regency. It also concerns the history of science and technology , the administrative history, the history of language and many other areas. These documents are presented here for the first time in a critical edition e , which allows researchers to better understand the state of France.

This survey combines three major players: Philippe d'Orleans, Regent of France (I discovered he had a scientific background, being a student of chemist Homberg), Father Jean-Paul Bignon (personal adviser of the Regent and one of the reformers of the Academy of Sciences) and René-Antoine Reaumur Ferchault of who needs no introduction as he gave his name to a street in Paris (he was a naturalist, mathematician, physicist, chemist and resident engineer of the Academy of Sciences among others). We will not forget the work of housekeepers, real kingpins of this survey (in addition to their other administrative tasks) as well as an interactive channel information of any kind: subdelegates stewards provinces engineers King, private: owners, mine operators, miners, priests, learned societies, comprising hundreds of players on the field. This survey has been built gradually and ruthlessly efficient since after the preparation of preliminary questionnaire survey in late 1715 by Bignon and Reaumur were compiled any documentation on the inventory of technical skills, knowledge scientific and natural resources of France (the whole kingdom is concerned except Paris).

Memoirs and correspondence gathered by generalities, describing the mineral resources, mining, industry Metallurgical since we must, according to the survey, " out carefully, marble and other stones that can be used to extraordinary ornament ... buildings, stones estimable or their property or their color and their beauty, as are the jasper, crystals, stones, precious portion of any kind, even talcs, magnet, etc.., minerals. If they are neglected in the Country, it will suffice to send samples ... If it works there, he will observe the depth, which bothers the workers there and how we correct this, they highlight how the mineral, the preparation of the same material ..., etc... "

So come to the Academy of Sciences of the hundreds of samples will be analyzed and titled in his laboratory ...

What are the results of this survey? We assembled a considerable body of literature of major historical interest on mines and quarries, the "working class" (with big quotes for this deliberate anachronism), places of extraction and processing of ores (smelting, forges ...), research and processing, coal, lead alum, jayet (Also written as "Jet"), cobalt, etc.., Precious metals (gold, silver ...), glassware (including Cherbourg), the luxury goods industry (lace and "points of France", etc..) with few rests on agriculture and animal husbandry and trade (except for textiles). Note also that this survey highlights the innovative role of drawing in the constitution of an administrative knowledge (the book contains reproductions of many mines, quarries, foundries, forges, etc..).

Finally, here is a small part of this investigation. We are in 1716, the country of Foix, in the generality of Montauban to be precise, it describes " plants and simple" (pages 588-589):

" to seven or eight miles from Villefranche de Rouergue, there is a kind of melampirum we saw described in Dominicus Cabreus [it is a botanical treatise] as the melampirum pururo vilolaceum which is of surprising beauty. Around the same city, we see the absynthium montanum camimeli flora. This plant is very rare, appears poorly contained and according to the principles of Mr. Tournefort pouroit we store it under the name chamemelum montanum fruistescens absynthii solio (...). Mountains, in many places, are responsible for plants and vulnerary that doctors and the inhabitants of the Country believe as much as those of Switzerland (...) and there abundance of simple one y Pickup Montpellier .

real treat to read from one end to another! This critical edition
e investigating the Regent in his place in every library!