Les prénoms masculins à Rennes pendant la Révolution (1785-1805)

Jean-Pierre Lethuillier, Male First Names in Rennes during the Revolution (1 785-1805). Confining the search to « revolutionary first names » runs the risk of unevenly illuminating the way names react to political events, to the upheavals of Year II, and when they are few, it may give the impression that the corpuses are more or less inert. The author shows there is a need to widen the angle and include the entire stock of forenames. In Rennes, where the register of Christian names offers strong resistance to the years of Revolution, Year II yields an unusual crop of short forenames, as if, conversely, the long forename were « aristocratic ».