Marginación y derecho. Mendicidad y pobreza en Francia entre Antiguo Régimen y Revolución

The following essay aims to address the legal status of beggars and, more generally, of the indigent populations of France between the Old Regime and the Revolution. From the study of normative sources, as well as legal and political practices and discourses, a greater continuity emerges between the two eras compared to what historiography has traditionally maintained. However, in this continuity, caesuras emerge that open new horizons of meaning in European constitutional history. Although, there is a persistence with the practices of the Old Regime, the revolutionary period and in particular the Jacobin moment was characterized by an attempt to get out of the paternalistic and moralistic paradigm and open new possibilities to overcome poverty, especially through the right to work.