A Guadeloupean in Paris
Alexandre Privat d’Anglemont Leads the Investigation
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2022.38821Keywords:
Privat d’Anglemont, social representations, urban ethnology, bohemian life, underclass, memory of slaveryAbstract
Alexandre Privat d’Anglemont (1815-1859) was born of mixed race in Caribbean Islands. When he was ten, he left for Paris, where thereafter he lived, away from his family. As a journalist and an author, he shared the “bohème littéraire” in the 1840’s. To conduct his innovative ethnographic survey, published as Paris anecdote (1854), he had to mix with a nearly invisible population of poor people, who resorted to any means of survival. He managed to distinguish them from the so-called “classes dangereuses”, a target for official inquiries. He had kept a confused memory from his childhood overseas, and some worries about his native origin; being uprooted probably gave him a privileged position to observe the French metropolis.
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