The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre
The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre
A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris
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Officially, revolutionary France granted all citizens a right to property. In practice, however, there was significant continuity with the Old Regime. H. B. Callaway argues that the state's fraught attempts to confiscate property from Parisian émigrés reveal contradictions in ideas of ownership considered foundational to modern property rights.