Historical approach to rural youth (nineteenth century France)

Abstract

This article outlines an analysis of the situation and the role of youth in nineteenth century rural France. Socially well integrated, they are perceived as the lifeblood of rural communities, which they attributed a number of tasks in the organization of leisure, sex police and defense of the community. The slow decline of the influence of these rural communities, and their integration into the national whole, relaxed the ties between these communities and the young, who won autonomy throughout the nineteenth century. Working after finishing his schooling, they was the antithesis of the bourgeois model, even within the family framework, professional training was developed by working in close liaison with the assimilation of the future status of independent farmer or agricultural worker (formed as a servant).

Keywords

• jeunesse rurale
• france
• xixe siècle
• domesticité agricole
• communautés villageoises