Language:
French
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Etudes Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
180,3-4 (2021) 357-386
Keywords:
Jews History 18th century
;
Jews Social conditions
;
Jewish merchants History 18th century
Abstract:
With the French annexation of a number of cities or feudal estates (1680), the province of Alsace also admitted a Jewish population. These Jews were not expelled, as French law should have required, but neither did they gain recognition as such. They would now live under the French monarchy as they had under their German rulers. Their number would greatly increase after the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. In 1716, a group of twenty-five Alsatian Jewish merchants asked for different improvements of their status. Nicolas-Prosper Bauyn d’Angervilliers, the then Intendant of the Alsatian Province, was asked to review the matter. He prepared a new draft (printed here) which he submitted to the interested parties. It could not overcome the opposition of the most important leaders of the Alsatian Jewish communities, who had disowned the original petitioners, or that of the Alsatian nobility which feared for its privileges. D’Angervilliers’s project came to nothing, but it was not forgotten. Some of its proposals will be quoted later on and their influence is very visible in the Letters patent which were eventually granted in 1784 to the Alsatian Jewish nation. The present paper offers a presentation and an edition of D’Angervilliers’s project which includes the texts of the different protagonists.
DOI:
10.2143/REJ.180.3.3290062
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