- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
-
Editors’ Introduction: Recognition and Registration: The Infrastructure of Personhood in World History -
1 Household Registration, Property Rights, and Social Obligations in Imperial China: Principles and Practices -
2 Registration of Identities in Early Modern English Parishes and amongst the English Overseas -
3 Too Much Information? Too Little Coordination? (Civil) Registration in Nineteenth-Century Germany -
4 Japan’s Civil Registration Systems Before and After the Meiji Restoration -
5 Civil Status and Identification in Nineteenth-Century France: A Matter of State Control? -
6 Identity Registration in the Classical Mediterranean World -
7 Naming, Identifying and Authorizing Movement in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America -
8 Establishing and Registering Identity in the Dutch Republic1 -
9 The Identity Thieves of the Indian Ocean: Forgery, Fraud and the Origins of South African Immigration Control, 1890s–1920s -
10 Parish Baptism Registers, Vital Registration and Fixing Identities in Uganda1 -
11 Identity Registration in India During and After the Raj -
12 Monitoring the Abolition of the International Slave Trade: Slave Registration in the British Caribbean -
13 Birth of the ‘Secular’ Individual: Medical and Legal Methods of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Egypt -
14 No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa -
15 Voting, Welfare and Registration: The Strange Fate of the État-Civil in French Africa, 1945–1960 -
16 Uruguay’s Child Rights Approach to Health: What Role for Civil Registration? -
17 Birth Registration and the Promotion of Children’s Rights in the Interwar Years -
18 Children, Citizenship and Child Support: The Child Support Grant in Post-Apartheid South Africa -
19 What Comes After the Social? Historicizing the Future of Social Assistance and Identity Registration in Africa - Index
Civil Status and Identification in Nineteenth-Century France: A Matter of State Control?
Civil Status and Identification in Nineteenth-Century France: A Matter of State Control?
- Chapter:
- (p.137) 5 Civil Status and Identification in Nineteenth-Century France: A Matter of State Control?
- Source:
- Registration and Recognition
- Author(s):
Paul-André Rosental
- Publisher:
- British Academy
Civil status, and particularly birth certificates, rather than identity papers, are the legal basis of identification in France. Its nineteenth-century history presents a complex picture, which cannot be reduced to a process of increasing state control. Far from implementing ambitious registration projects, French liberal administration left information scattered and scarce as compared to European standards. It had to find a balance between the need to provide open information in order to minimize uncertainty in social and economic relationships, and the protection of personal and family honour and reputation. Citizens' agency and consent have been determinant in this process, whose traces are still visible in contemporary France.
Keywords: birth certificates, citizens' agency, civil status, consent, gender, marriage, honour, identity papers, state control
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
-
Editors’ Introduction: Recognition and Registration: The Infrastructure of Personhood in World History -
1 Household Registration, Property Rights, and Social Obligations in Imperial China: Principles and Practices -
2 Registration of Identities in Early Modern English Parishes and amongst the English Overseas -
3 Too Much Information? Too Little Coordination? (Civil) Registration in Nineteenth-Century Germany -
4 Japan’s Civil Registration Systems Before and After the Meiji Restoration -
5 Civil Status and Identification in Nineteenth-Century France: A Matter of State Control? -
6 Identity Registration in the Classical Mediterranean World -
7 Naming, Identifying and Authorizing Movement in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America -
8 Establishing and Registering Identity in the Dutch Republic1 -
9 The Identity Thieves of the Indian Ocean: Forgery, Fraud and the Origins of South African Immigration Control, 1890s–1920s -
10 Parish Baptism Registers, Vital Registration and Fixing Identities in Uganda1 -
11 Identity Registration in India During and After the Raj -
12 Monitoring the Abolition of the International Slave Trade: Slave Registration in the British Caribbean -
13 Birth of the ‘Secular’ Individual: Medical and Legal Methods of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Egypt -
14 No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa -
15 Voting, Welfare and Registration: The Strange Fate of the État-Civil in French Africa, 1945–1960 -
16 Uruguay’s Child Rights Approach to Health: What Role for Civil Registration? -
17 Birth Registration and the Promotion of Children’s Rights in the Interwar Years -
18 Children, Citizenship and Child Support: The Child Support Grant in Post-Apartheid South Africa -
19 What Comes After the Social? Historicizing the Future of Social Assistance and Identity Registration in Africa - Index
