Illustrations and Tables  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

Introducing the Pariahs of Yesterday  1

1. Contexts  15

2. A Breton Crowd in Paris: The Beginnings  31

3. The Turn of the Century: A Belle Époque?  69

4. Between the Wars  120

5. A Long Resolution in Postwar Paris  160

Conclusion  179

Appendix. Marriage Records  185

Notes  193

Bibliography  231

Index  251

“The Pariahs of Yesterday provides a sensitive model that can be applied to the study of many settlement processes in unfriendly environments.”—Paul-André Rosental, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“Overall, readers will find in this study a well-researched and vividly-narrated account of one of the most remarkable cases of internal migration and assimilation in modern French history.” —Edward Ousselin, Dalhousie French Studies

“The Pariahs of Yesterday provides a sensitive model that can be applied to the study of many settlement processes in unfriendly environments.”—Paul-André Rosental, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“Overall, readers will find in this study a well-researched and vividly-narrated account of one of the most remarkable cases of internal migration and assimilation in modern French history.” —Edward Ousselin, Dalhousie French Studies

“Leslie Page Moch has given us a more vivid and fully analyzed picture of Breton migration to Paris during the Third French Republic than we have had before. She moves deftly across the fields of demographic, urban, and cultural history to show how young women and men from rural villages in western France became Parisians in their own way, despite the stubborn persistence of prejudice against them. The Pariahs of Yesterday demonstrates that the history of France’s internal migration from the provinces has much to teach us about the dynamics of the country’s more recent controversies over immigration and cultural diversity.”—Herrick Chapman, co-editor of Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

“The Pariahs of Yesterday will be the definitive work on Bretons in Paris. Leslie Page Moch is one of the foremost historians of European migration and here, through the eyes of contemporary observers and the microscope of marriage registries, Moch traces a longue durée history of an important component of the Parisian population from the late nineteenth century to the present.”—Nancy L. Green, author of Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

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