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Projet Fox Files of Ralph E. Giesey Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department. Copyright: Please read The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials. Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement. Acquisition and Processing Information: The bulk of this collection was donated by Ralph E. Giesey in the autumn of 2008. Photographs: None |
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of the research materials used by Professor Ralph E. Giesey for his extensive research project, entitled Projet Fox. (The name was derived by Giesey from the southern French village Fox-Amphoux, in which he did much of his research work in the 1970s.)
Projet Fox is a major examination of French medieval and early modern family inheritance and succession law. Giesey undertook the project with, as he admits, a highly polemical motive - he wishes to explore the role of hereditary plutocracy in our own times., and the project studies French heriditary transmission of great wealth with an eye to such wealth transfer in the modern day.
The collection contains Giesey's Project Bibliographical Files, which consist of many of the articles, reprints and other sources Giesey consulted in the course of the project, arranged alphabetically by author. Also contained are numerous Source Materials consisting of reproduced copies of French legal and historical treatises, as well as a Subject File consisting of handwritten notes and jottings from Giesey. The file is arranged alphabetically by subject.
The last box in the collection contains Giesey's typewritten transcription of the 1565 Latin text Franco-Gallia, by Francois Hotman, sieur de Villiers Saint Paul. Accompanying this manuscript is a photocopy of the Library of Congress copy of the book itself.
Biographical Note
Ralph Giesey is a Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Iowa. He is a noted scholar of medieval and early modern French legal and social history. Among Giesey's works are "Le rôle méconnu de la loi salique: La succession royale, XIVe-XVI e siècles" (2007), "The Royal Funerary Ceremony in Renaissance France"(1960), "Rulership in France, 15th-17th centuries" (2004), "Le roi ne meurt jamais : les obsèques royales dans la France de la Renaissance" (1987), "If not, not : the oath of the Aragonese and the legendary laws of Sobrarbe" (1968), and "The juristic basis of dynastic right to the French throne" (1961).
Box Contents List
Box 1
Bibliographic Files
Folders
1 A
2 – 6 B
7 – 10 C
11 – 14 D
15 E
16 F
17 – 18 G
19 – 21 H
22 I
Box 2
Bibliographic Files
Folders
1 J
2 K
3 – 6 L
7 – 8 M
9 N
10 O
11 – 12 P
13 – 17 R
18 – 21 S
22 – 23 T
24 V
Box 3
Bibliographic Files
Folders
1 V
2 Y – Z
Source Materials
3 Arnaud, A., Essai d’analyse structural du code civil francais (1973)
4 Arnaud, A., Les origines doctrinales du Code civil francais (1969)
5 Bergues, Helene, et.al., La Prevention des naissances dans la familie, ses origines dans les temps moderns (1960)
6 Bernheim, F., De la theorie de la propertie apparente en matiere de droits d’enregistrement (1936)
7 Besta, E., Le Succession nella storia del diritto Italiano (1961)
8 Bevin, G., Les nouveaux aspects de la theorie des pactes sur succession future (1942)
9 Bluche, F., L’anoblissement par charges avant 1789 (1962)
10 Boilon, M., Traite’ special sur les successions ou point de vue fiscal… (1867)
11 Caillemer, R., Le retrait lignager dans le droit provencal (1906)
12 Chauffordet, M., Le problem de la perpetuite de la propertie (1933)
13 Clos, M., Le role de l’intention liberale dans les donations deguises (1941)
14 Congres’ de notaries de France, Du reglement des successions (1971)
15 Daumard, A., Structures et relations socials a Paris au milieu du XVIIIe siècle (1961)
16 Duttamel, H., Essai sur la distinction theorique des biens en immeubles et en meubles d’apres le Coutumier de Poitou de 1417 (1913)
17 Durupt, M., Evolution de la notion de proper dans la coutume de Paris du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle (1938)
18 Duverigier de Hauranne, De l’egalitie des partages, et du droit d’ainesse (1826)
19 Fildermann, W., Les successions en droit compare (1909)
20 Filhol, L., La famille et les impots sur les successions (1930)
21 Gournot, A., Discours sur l’esprit general de la loi francaise relative aux successions (1854)
Box 4
Source Materials
Folders
1 Greiff, F., Les droits de l’etat en matiere de succession (1888)
2 Happe, R., La saisine hereditaire et les projets de loi actuels relatives a sa suppression dans le but d’enrayer les frauds fiscales par depot de valeurs a l’etranger (1921)
3 Ibled, J., Essai historique sur la regle (1905)
4 Incomplete work, author unknown, n.d.
5 Jarriand, E., Histoire de la novelle 118 dans les pays de droit ecrit depuis Justinien jusqu’en 1789 (1889)
6 Lale’re, M., De la modificiation a ‘apporter au regime successoral en vue d’enrayer la diminution de la natalite’ (1920)
7 Lampman, R., The Share of Top Wealth-holders in National Wealth, 1922-56 (1962)
8 Laporte, J., Des atteintes directes et indirectes a la saisine hereditaire par la droit fiscal (1939)
9 Lefebvre, C., Les fortunes anciennes au point de vue-juridique (1912)
10 Lefebvre, C., Observations sur les rentes perpetuelles dans l’ancien droit francais (1914)
11 Lerouge, G., Theorie de la fraude en droit fiscal (1944)
12 Louis-Lucas, P., Etude sur la venalite des charges et fonctions publiques et su celles des offices ministerielsm depuis l’antiquitie romaine jusqu’a nos jours, precede d’une introduction generale (1883)
13 National Committee on Inheritance Taxation, Report of the National Committee (1925)
14 Petitjean, H., Fondements et meconisme de la transmission successionale et droit francais et en droit anglais (1959)
15 Pietri-Tonelli, A., Il dritto ereditario, saggio espositivo e critic…(1908)
16 Piano Mortari, V., Diritto romano e diritto nazionale in Francia a nel selcolo XVI (1962)
17 Piret, A., Le recontre chez Pothier des conceptions romaine… (1937)
18 Prosopographie des elites francaises (XVIe-XXe siecles) (1980)
19 Reinaud, F., Le patrimonie familial et l’etat… (1941)
20 Robine, C., Les souvenirs de famille en droit francais (1944)
21 Sandford, C.T., Taxing Inheritance and Capital Gains (1967)
22 Swart, K.W., Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century (1949)
23 Tch’en, Hiang-fei, L’institution de la Reserve Hereditaire… (1941)
24 Timbal, E., Nature juridique de la donation de biens a venir (1935)
25 Titmuss, R., Income Distribution and Social Change (1962)
26 Weil-Fribourg, V., Le droit des heritiers a leur reserve en nature… (1935)
Box 5
Subject File
Folders
1 Ancien Regime
2 Bibliography
3 Bourgoisie (Wealth)
4 Capitalism
5 Class
6 Dynastic Officialdom
7 England
8 Equality
9 Family (General)
10 Family (Secrets)
11 Family (Size and Extension)
12 France (Modern)
13 Fraude
14 French Revolution
15 Genetic
16 Germany
17 Inheritance (General)
18 Italy
19 Life Chances
20 Marriage Contracts
21 Marxism
22 Meritocracy
23 Methodology
24 Mobility
25 Nobility
26 Notaries
27 Offices
28 Paradigm Theory
29 Parlement
30 Paterfamilias
31 Patrimony
32 Primogeniture
33 Projet Fox
34 Property
35 Propres
36 Rentes
37 Reserve and Legitime
38 Retrait Lignagier
39 Royal Administration
40 Saisine
41 Socialism
42 Society (Theory)
43 Spain
44 State
45 Succession (Advantaging)
46 Succession (Code Civil)
47 Succession (Hereditary)
48 Succession (Taxes)
49 Synchronous/Diachronic
50 United States
51 Venality
52 World Resources (Club of Rome)
53 Subject Index – Notebook 1
Box 6
Folders
1 Subject Index, Notebook 2
2 Subject Index, Notebooks 3-4
Typewritten transcription, Franco-Gallia (1565)
Photocopy of 1565 edition of Franco-Gallia
