Geneviève Aclocque

Geneviève Aclocque
Geneviève Aclocque in 1913
Born	Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque (1884-05-05)May 5, 1884 Lyon, France
Died	August 28, 1967(1967-08-28) (aged 83) Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher, France
Education	Archivist-paleography,[1] École Nationale des Chartes (1910)

Geneviève Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian.^[1]

Biography

Geneviève Aclocque was born on 5 May 1884 in Lyon. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes. She graduated in 1910.^[2]

In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.”^[3] An ordinance of wool makers at Chartres allowed women to participate in trade.^[4] According to Aclocque, the early stages of wool production were undertaken by the male workers, while the spinning was done by women using distaffs. There was also a practice in which the master weavers of wool at Chartres could teach their heirs, male or female, to replace them as masters of the trade.^[5][4]

Her studies also revealed links between trade practices and certain religious rituals.^[6] Further her publications claim that in order to avoid even a reduced tax, the tavern keepers sold their wine in Chartres' nave.^[7]

She was married to historian Joseph de Croy. She died on 28 August 1967 in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher.^[1]

Publications

• Études sur le commerce et l'industrie à Chartres depuis le XI^e siècle jusqu'à la fin du ministère de Colbert : thèse, Abbeville, imprimerie F. Paillart 1910.
• Les corporations, l'industrie et le commerce à Chartres, du XI^e siècle à la Révolution, Paris : éditions Picard, 1917, réédité par B. Franklin, New York 1967.
• André-Arnoult Aclocque, commandant général de la garde nationale parisienne, 1748-1802 : un défenseur du roi, Paris : A. et J. Picard, 1947.
• Un épisode sur la presse clandestine au temps de Madame de Pompadour, Paris Clavreuil, 1963.

References

1. "Geneviève Aclocque (1884-1967)" (in French). BnF. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
2. Ha, Marie-Paule (2014). French Women and the Empire: The Case of Indochina. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-199-64036-2. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
3. Welch Williams, Jane (1993). Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-226-89913-8. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
4. Burns, E. Jane (2006). "Saracen Silk and the Virgin's "Chemise": Cultural Crossing in Cloth" (PDF). Speculum. 81 (2): 365–397. doi:10.1017/S0038713400002621. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
5. Burns, E. Jane (14 July 2014). Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-812-29125-4. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
6. Feingold, Mordechai (2005). History of Universities: Volume XX/1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-199-28104-6. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
7. Marie Hayes, Dawn (23 November 2004). Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389. Oxon: Routledge. p. NA. ISBN 978-1-135-86003-5. Retrieved 2 May 2022.