{"id":414,"date":"2011-04-07T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:01:08","slug":"social-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/population\/social-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

What was New France\u2019s society like? Did it reflect French society under the Ancien R\u00e9gime? Or was it different? If so, why was it not identical to the society from which it originated? In this article on social groups, Arnaud Bessi\u00e8re answers these questions and many others.<\/p>\n

Mauvide-Genest seigniorial manor at Saint-Jean, Isle of Orleans<\/strong>
Camirand photographie \/ Saint-Jean-de-l'\u00cele-d'Orl\u00e9ans<\/div>\">\"Mauvide-Genest<\/a>

Mauvide-Genest seigniorial manor at Saint-Jean, Isle of Orleans<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The author paints a portrait of the colony\u2019s population at different points in time and covers each social category: seigneurs, merchants, artisans, peasants and servants. He reminds us of their importance and examines their way of life, duties and responsibilities. We discover that there were significant disparities within each social category, as was the case in France. For example, some of the seigneurs tried to reproduce seigneurial practices found in France, while others barely survived on their lands. As for the merchants, some made great fortunes, while the majority scraped a living from small businesses.<\/p>\n

Arnaud Bessi\u00e8re\u2019s article offers insight into the hierarchical structure of New France\u2019s society and of the various social groups. It highlights the way a new society \u2014 distinct from that of France \u2014 progressively took shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What was New France\u2019s society like? Did it reflect French society under the Ancien R\u00e9gime? Or was it different? If so, why was it not identical to the society from which it originated? In this article on social groups, Arnaud Bessi\u00e8re answers these questions and many others. The author paints a portrait of the colony\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":307,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions\/3051"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}