| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Our purpose was to clarify the socio-economic character of political elite under the French Second Empire (1852-1870). We studied the selection process of French official candidates for the elections of Legislative Body (le Corps Legislatif) members in the so-called "Grand Ouest" region (composed of 25 departments in the French western area) under that regime, using the so-called <<applied prosopographical>> approach which uses as data the information extracted by prosopographical analyses already done. We found a trend that the industrial or commercial class members had become preferred to the land owners under the Second Empire. From this finding we conclude that the widely-shared image of 19th-century French society as dominated by the Notables (see Daniel Halevy's argument) must be reconsidered, and that the Second Empire must be regarded as a somewhat progressive regime.
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