Geneviève Aclocque

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Geneviève Aclocque in 1913

Geneviève Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian.[1]

Biography

Geneviève Aclocque was born on 5 May 1884 in Lyon. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes. She graduated in 1910.[2]

In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at

distaffs. There was also a practice in which the master weavers of wool at Chartres could teach their heirs, male or female, to replace them as masters of the trade.[5][4]

Her studies also revealed links between trade practices and certain religious rituals.[6] Further her publications claim that in order to avoid even a reduced tax, the tavern keepers sold their wine in Chartres' nave.[7]

She was married to historian Joseph de Croy. She died on 28 August 1967 in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher.[1]

Publications

  • Études sur le commerce et l'industrie à Chartres depuis le XIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du ministère de Colbert : thèse, Abbeville, imprimerie F. Paillart 1910.
  • Les corporations, l'industrie et le commerce à Chartres, du XIe siècle à la Révolution, Paris : éditions Picard, 1917, réédité par B. Franklin, New York 1967.
  • André-Arnoult Aclocque, commandant général de la garde nationale parisienne, 1748-1802 : un défenseur du roi, Paris : A. et J. Picard, 1947.
  • Un épisode sur la presse clandestine au temps de Madame de Pompadour, Paris Clavreuil, 1963.

References

  1. ^ a b "Geneviève Aclocque (1884-1967)" (in French). BnF. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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