SUMMARY Up to the end of the 9th century, net migration in France was negligible. Thus, the size of the population at different periods may be estimated from birth and death statistics classified by sex and age. Such statistics have existed since 1806 and have already been used by...

Henry Louis and Houdaille Jacques. Celibacy and Age at Marriage in the 18th and 19th Centuries in France. Movements in the proportions never married during the 18th and early 19th centuries could not be studied in the many monographs dealing with the historical demography of individual parishes....

SUMMARY A study based on family reconstitution of 10 villages, randomly selected, with a population of 7 500 in 1821. The data, extracted from parish registers and vital statistics, have been completed with the listing of inhabitants when available. The proportion of births not recorded in...

Henry Louis and Blanchet Didier. ? The Population of England from 1541 to 1871. In this article, the reconstitution of the population of England for the period 1541 to 1871 conducted by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, presented by E.A. Wrigley and R.S....

Henry Louis and Houdaille Jacques. ? Celibacy and Age at Marriage during the 18th and 19th Centuries in France. II. Age at First Marriage. In this paper changes in the age at first marriage between 1740 and 1829 are discussed. The information was obtained from parochial registers and civil...