num_pages: 144
description: The box D4 UI 7 in the fonds of the justices de paix of Paris kept in the Archives de la Seine entitled Basse-Gele de la Seine procs-verbaux de mort violente (ans IIIIX) lists the particulars of 404 persons (there are in fact 405 procs-verbaux but one man is listed twice) who met violent deaths through suicide accidents murder and natural causes. The period covered is from 1 Floral Year III (Monday 20 April 1795) to 26 Fructidor Year IX (Sunday 13 September 1801); but there are only scattered minutes for the Year III a year in which mortality rates reached for the second year in succession a record figure of 30000 for Paris and in which suicides are said to have been particularly numerous especially among women of the very poor so that the documentation can only be taken as fully representative for the period October 1795 to mid-September 1801 a span of six years. (...) - Richard Cobb
language: English
title: Death in Paris, 1795-1801
publisher: Oxford University Press