Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France

Peter Sahlins

DOI:10.2307/2169293

Corpus ID: 146941076

Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France

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Peter Sahlins

Published 1994

Sociology, History

In May 1829, strange reports surfaced from the Ariege department in the French Pyrenees, describing male peasants, bizarrely dressed in women's clothes, gathering in the forests at night to chase away state guards and charcoalmakers. This was the raucous War of the Demoiselles, a protest against the national French Forest Code of 1827, which restricted peasants' rights to use state and private forests. Peter Sahlins unravels the fascinating story of this celebrated popular uprising, and in his… CONTINUE READING

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