Author: H. B. Callaway

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0674279344

Officially, revolutionary France granted all citizens a right to property. In practice, however, there was significant continuity with the Old Regime. H. B. Callaway argues that the state’s fraught attempts to confiscate property from Parisian émigrés reveal contradictions in ideas of ownership considered foundational to modern property rights.