SAUGRAIN, Claude Marin.

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Nouveau de'nombrement du royaume, par generalitez, elections, paroisses et feux... Second and revised edition of this census of France following the death of Louis XIV. Saugrain's work provides the number of households in virtually every town and commune: the work "allows one to estimate with only a small margin of error the population of France and its distribution" (Pounds, p. 93)Claude-Marin Saugrain (1679-1750) seems to have been primarily employed in the Paris book trade. Although his census was not financed by the government, Saugrain drew heavily on the individual population reports of Louis's Intendants, forerunners of the modern French préfets.The first edition was published in 1709.

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