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Jean-Baptiste Félix Hubert de Vintimille du Luc

1720–1777

Born
23 Jul 1720
Country of birth
France
Died
10 Sep 1777, Paris
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A life in time

  1. Born

    Birth

  2. Child born: Charles de Vintimille

    Birth, Versailles

  3. Died · Paris

    Death, Paris

What was it like?

The world around 1720: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Ordinary rural people in France often went barefoot during the warmer seasons and relied heavily on secondhand clothing, as buying new outfits was exceptional.

During their lifetime

  1. 1720

    The Great Plague of Marseilles

    The Great Plague of Marseilles, the last major plague epidemic in France, devastated the region between 1720 and 1721.

  2. 1738

    Introduction of road labor corvee

    In 1738, the crown introduced the corvee, a system of forced labor requiring peasants to build and maintain the royal roads.

  3. 1748

    Abolition of the royal galleys

    In 1748, King Louis XV abolished the galleys, transferring convicts to coastal prisons or ships, ending a long-standing form of harsh penal servitude.

  4. 1775

    The Flour War of 1775

    The Flour War of 1775 involved widespread riots across northern France after grain trade deregulation caused bread prices to rise by over 50 percent.

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