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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Explique la différence entre la peau et le cuir dans le métier de tanneur, montre les techniques d'obtention du tan ainsi que l'utilisation récente de l'écorce de châtaignier dans l'industrie du cuir. Décrit enfin l'univers des moulins à chamoiser, spécialistes du foulage des peaux tannées avec de l'huile de poisson.
Heller refutes Roland Mousnier's thesis that early modern France was a society of orders in which most people knew and accepted their status in society. This concept of order certainly had meaning for the sixteenth-century élite because of aristocratic domination over land and people, but it is not clear that this was also the view of the commoners. Heller maintains that for peasants, craftsmen, and merchants the decline of the French economy started at the beginning rather than the middle of the sixteenth century. This resulted in unrest which spread from town to countryside, culminating in the three great popular movements of the civil wars: the Calvinist Revolt of the 1560s, the Catholic...