Norman Village Life Under the Ancien Régime

Description

BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER] HERVIEU (P.-N.). Une Commune Normande sous l'Ancien Régime. (Vieilles). Paris, Société Française d'Imprimerie, 1905. Octavo, 370 pages, author portrait as frontispiece. Paperbound, ivory covers printed in black (covers worn, interior well preserved). Historical study of the former parish of Vieilles, suppressed for worship in 1794 and merged in 1825 with Beaumont-le-Roger. This commune had a very rich past with its two noble fiefs, lords, barons, counts, dukes and kings, its High Justice tribunal, notary office and leprosarium.