Geneviève Aclocque Explained

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.

Notes and References

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