L’administration vénitienne et l’évolution des techniques d’enregistrement des étrangers dans le contexte de la Révolution française (1789-1797)

Abstract

What was the impact of the influx of French people and their neighbours during the Revolution on recording procedures in Venice for movements of foreigners arriving from Italy or the rest of Europe? More inclined to prefer annotations rather than passports, State inquisitors feverishly collected informations from hotels, lodging-house keepers, monasteries, passenger carriers, monitoring authorities for the entrances and exits in Venice, and postmasters and officers in the Terraferma. The supervision of foreigners increased thanks to numerous lists and index notebooks, and by surveilling when they were transfering from one residence to another. The aim was to register comings and goings in a dense territorial network, but these means were not guaranteed success…

Keywords

• foreigner
• Venice
• Italy
• migration
• France
• checking