Les vignerons et le marché immobilier de l'Ancien Régime à l'Empire, dans la région d'Amboise

Anne Jollet : Wine-growers and the property market from the Old Regime to the Empire in the Amboise region. At the end of the 18th Century wine-growers were numerous in the countryside around Amboise, a small town in the Touraine, in the middle Loire valley. They constituted a third of the 3 900 families living there, corresponding to the majority of the peasants. This article studies how this particular social group fared on the property market throughout the French Revolution. Their activity increased together with that of the whole society, and during the thirty years under study they became more and more buyers rather than sellers, which shows their economic health. Their property increased slowly, as a result of numerous transactions, involving very small plots of land, which became ever smaller, particularly vineyard plots. This facilitated their activity and at the same time their activity helped to increase the number of tiny plots of land, which modified the structure of this property market.