French Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790 Study Description and Codebook

Study Description

TITLE: French Old Regime Bureaucrats: the Intendants de Province (1661-1790)

ORIGINATING ORGANIZATION OR RESEARCHER: Professor John A. Armstrong, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin

DPLS SOURCE: John A. Armstrong; collected from Charles Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne, Le Personnel Administratif sous l'Ancien Regime (Paris: 1868); and L'Administration sous l'Ancien Regime: Les Intendants de la Generalite d'Amiens (Picardie et Artois) (Paris: 1865). Pierre Clement (ed.). Lettres, Instructions et Memoires de Colbert, Vol. II (Paris: 1863). Charles Godard, Les Pouvoirs des Intendants sous Louis XIV, Particulierement dans les Pays d'Elections de 1661 a 1715 (Paris: 1901). Pavel Ardashev, Les Intendants de Province sous Louis XIV (Paris: 1909). Vivian Gruder, The Royal Provincial Intendants (Ithaca: 1968). All of the above contain extended lists of intendants: in addition, monographic sources on particular provinces, biographies, etc., were utilized.

DATES OF STUDY OR DATA COLLECTION: Data relate to administrative elites for the years 1661-1770, with a limited amount of biographical information before these dates. Data were coded and punched in 1969-1970.

UNIVERSE TO WHICH DATA PERTAIN: Intendants de Province serving during the years 1661-1790.

NUMBER OF DATA UNITS: 377 Intendants

MODE OF DATA STORAGE: Cards (original); Various (current)

REFERENCE MATERIALS: Codebook, documentation, listing, and forthcoming article "Old Regime Governors Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Attributes:" Comparative Studies in Society and History 14(1) January 1972 pp. 2-29, by John Armstrong.

CONDITION OF DATA: As collected by John A. Armstrong and cleaned in the process of analysis.

ABSTRACT OF CONTENT: The data file contains the names of Intendants and periods of incumbency in different intendances (provinces). In about 20% of the cases, years of birth, years of death, and years of entry to official service (becoming Maitre des Requetes) are also given.

CLASSIFICATION: Unrestricted after December 31, 1972.

TYPE OF SAMPLING PROCEDURE: Saturation sample, estimated 92% of the universe.

French Old Regime Bureaucrats: the Intendants de Province (1661-1790)

Codebook

(N=377)

Column    Information
1-31      Name
32-34     Birth date*
35-37     Year of Entry to Service (MR)**
38-40     Year of Death
41-42     Code for Area of 1st Term as Intendant
43-45     Year Begin First Term
46-48     Year End First Term
49-50     Code for Area of 2nd Term as Intendant
51-53     Year Begin Second Term
54-56     Year End Second Term
57-58     Code for Area of 3rd Term as Intendant
59-61     Year Begin Third Term
62-64     Year End Third Term
65-66     Code for Area of 4th Term as Intendant
67-69     Year Begin Fourth Term
70-72     Year End Fourth Term
73-74     Code for Area of 5th Term as Intendant
75-77     Year Begin Fifth Term
78-80     Year End Fifth Term

*For all dates, only the last three numerals are punched. Thus, 1691 would be punched 691. Missing data and data not applicable to particular individuals are designated by blanks on the cards.
**Maitre de Requetes.

CODES FOR INTENDANCIES (GENERALITIES)   
01 Aix (Provence)*
02 Alencon
03 Alsace (Strasbourg)
04 Amiens (Picardie, Artois)
   Anjou (see Tours)
05 Auch (Bearn-Bordeaux)
06 Aunis (Rochelle)
   Auvergne (see Riom)
   Bayonne (see Bern)
07 Bearn-Navarre (Pau)
   Berry (see Bourges)
08 Besancon (Bourgogne-France Comte)
09 Bourdeaux
10 Bourges
11 Bourgogne-D. (Dijon-Duche)
12 Bretagne (Rennes)
13 Caen
14 Chalons (Champagne)
15 Champagne Frontiere
16 Corse
   Dauphine (see Grenoble)
   Dijon (see Bourgogne-Duche)
   Dunquerque (see Flandre Maritime)
17 Flandre (Lille)
18 Flandre Maritime (Dunquerque)
19 Grenoble (Dauphine)
20 Hainaut
   Ile de France (see Paris)
21 Languedoc (Montpellier)
   Lille (see Flandre)
22 Limoges
   Lorraine (see Metz)
23 Luxembourg
24 Lyon
25 Maubeuge
26 Metz (Lorraine)
27 Montauban
   Montpellier (see Languedoc)
28 Moulins
29 Nancy
30 Nice
31 Orleans
32 Oudenarde
33 Paris
   Pau (see Bearn)
   Picardie (see Amiens)
   Perpignan (see Roussillon)
34 Poitiers
   Provence (see Aix)
   Rennes (see Bretagne)
35 Riom (Auvergne)
   Rochelle (see Aunis)
36 Rouen
37 Roussillon (Perpignan)
38 Saarre
   Saintonge (see Aunis)
39 Sedan
40 Soissons
   Toulouse (see Languedoc)
41 Tours (Anjou)
42 Valenciennes

* Place names are listed alphabetically above. Those without numbers are referred to alternative (but numbered) names.

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