Abstract EN:

The characteristics of life cycles of the individuals and families in town, the social and residential mobility of households, little known for the nineteenth century, have been systematically studied, thanks to the versailles census, which was nominative, yearly, and espacielly well done. The procedure adopted, in regard to establishing the relationship between family and town, consists in reconstituting the familial and kinship history, and the residential itinerary of a sample of about seven hundred individuals, and in confronting dynamics so obtained with more classical statistical observations. The phenomenon of mobility and of segregation in the area of the town have alse been studied. In an age when the industrial revolution had been changing the social data, the great mobility of individuals and of househelds, the numerical importance of isolated individuals and the weakness of local kinship are witnesses of fragility of the urban family, in a town which stayed nevertheless on the outskirts of the transformations linked to industrialization. Finally, the intergenerational study showed the particular ways of selection in the renewing of the population, selection which takes place to the detriment of lower class categories.