POOR RELIEF IN DIFFERENT PARTS
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Title: Poor Relief in Different Parts of Europe, a Selection of Essays Tr. From 'das Armenwesen Und Die Armengesetzgebung in Europischen Staaten', Ed. by A. Emminghaus, Revised [and Tr.] by E.b. Eastwick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER X. FRANCE. [By Dr. Maurice Block, of Paris.] Historical Sketch. France is not one of those countries which give a poor man a legal claim to relief -- its law-givers and rulers unite with the leading economists in proclaiming that society has merely moral duties, /. e. such as are voluntarily undertaken towards the distressed, and that the latter can never have any actual legal claim to relief In spite of the wording of some laws which may be taken in the opposite sense, this has always been the point of view of the French nation, and it has always been carried out in practice. Even when it was decided that a poor man had a claim to relief from his commune, it was always supposed, and sometimes even expressly mentioned, that relief could only be given as far as the means, voluntarily subscribed, would allow. The imposition of a special poor-tax, so it was said, was against the ruling principles; besides which the duty of dispensing public charity was not always laid upon the commune, but sometimes on the province (or department), and sometimes on the State. Sec i. Relief or The Distressed. The charge, and if possible the maintenance of the local poor, when they become old and infirm, seems always to have been the duty of the commune in France. This was put in express terms as early as 567, at the Council of Tours. Practically the care of the poor, with but few exceptions, was left to pri...
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