MERCHANTS, LANDLORDS, MAGISTRATES: THE DEPONT FAMILY IN 18TH CENTURY FRANCE, By Robert Forster

FAIN: RP-*1703-80

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Henry Y. K. Tom (Project Director: May 1980 to October 1990)

To support publication of "Merchants, Landlords, Magistrates: The Depont Family in Eighteenth-Century France," a three generation narrative history of the powerful Depont family that deals with the problems of social mobility, family organization, land tenure, and political power.