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The Tenant Movement in Paris and the Claim for the Right 1880-1914

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2007, 16(0), pp.67~98
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Min, You-ki 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article intends to examine the tenant movement in Paris from 1880 to 1914, which developed from the tenants’ antipathy toward their landlords to the claim for the housing rights. The results and the limits of the movements will also be analyzed. The tenant movement in Paris started at the onset of a housing crisis caused by a rapid increase in rent during the early 1880s. The participants in the movement, who were supported by anarchists, severely criticized the landlords and urged tenants not to pay their rent and to move out without landlords knowing. That resistance was the combination of the tenants’ dissatisfaction with their landlords and the anarchists’ criticism over the capitalist society. In 1900s, the association of tenants was formed and conducted activities such as publicity, education, and legislation petitioning for tenants’ rights. When housing crises occurred in the early 1910s, the resistant activities of the association against the housing owner became more active. Georges Cochon, who was leader of those activities, argued for housing rights of poor people in the city by occupying public buildings or empty houses and providing them to the tenants who were evicted by their landlords. The tenant movement in Paris before World War I had a result of proposing the housing right as a new social right. However, the tenant movement didn’t develop to be systematic and failed to lead a labor movement and political agreement for housing rights.

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