Registers of grievances
The registers of grievances are registers in which the assemblies charged to elect the deputies with the General states noted wishes and complaints. This use goes back to. The most notorious registers of grievances remain those of 1789.
The drafting of these books began in the villages and the urban Paroisse S with the drafting from “Cahiers from parishes”. One then established in each Bailliage Cahiers of bailliage reduced to twelve “Cahiers of governments”. These twelve books themselves were compiled to give three “registers of grievances”, one by order, result, thus, of an activity of selection and filter on the superabundant original material which would be judged variously by the modern ones.
In 1789, the registers of grievances have almost value of survey. A summary of the books is read in front of the constituent Assembly the July 27th 1789 by the count of Toulouse.
The books of 1789 are dense and one can find there about all and his opposite. One will note however that the books did not call at all into question loyalty to the king or the Propriété, in particular. The central notion of the Revolution however is clearly identified in the books: the social equality, equality in front of the tax and the law, as many middle-class claims which will triumph at the time of the Révolution. The citizens wrote mainly these books to denounce abuses and proposed by this method of the reforms against the company of the old mode
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