La couleur des yeux à l'époque du Ier Empire. Quelques commentaires sur l'évolution de ce caractère durant 238 ans - article ; n°4 ; vol.31, pg 677-699

Jacques Houdaille, Peter-Andreas Gloor

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Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1976 - Volume 31 - Numéro 4 - Pages 677-699
The army records preserved in the archives of Vincennes provide millions of individual descriptions of soldiers. In this paper, the evolution of eye colour by departement from the time of the First Empire up to 1940 is studied by means of a very simple index of colouration (percentage of grey eyes). The subjects belonging to the different series were, however, examined by quite different methods. In this connection it should be mentionned that the proportion of grey eyes increased towards 1770 and then decreased after 1880. In the East of France a brighter shade is observed to appear which could correspond to trend away from the brachycephalic type long since noted by anthropologists. Several series concerning privileged social classes (polytechnicians, senators of the Empire) show, moreover, that considerable differences existed between classes both with respect to size and to eye colour.
23 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: ANNALES_ECONOMIES_SOCIETES_CIVILISATIONS
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1976
• Nombre de lectures: 30
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Jacques Houdaille Peter-Andreas Gloor

La couleur des yeux à l'époque du Ier Empire. Quelques commentaires sur l'évolution de ce caractère durant 238 ans In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 31e année, N. 4, 1976. pp. 677-699.

Abstract The army records preserved in the archives of Vincennes provide millions of individual descriptions of soldiers. In this paper, the evolution of eye colour by departement from the time of the First Empire up to 1940 is studied by means of a very simple index of colouration (percentage of grey eyes). The subjects belonging to the different series were, however, examined by quite different methods. In this connection it should be mentionned that the proportion of grey eyes increased towards 1770 and then decreased after 1880. In the East of France a brighter shade is observed to appear which could correspond to trend away from the brachycephalic type long since noted by anthropologists. Several series concerning privileged social classes ("polytechnicians", senators of the Empire) show, moreover, that considerable differences existed between classes both with respect to size and to eye colour.

Citer ce document / Cite this document : Houdaille Jacques, Gloor Peter-Andreas. La couleur des yeux à l'époque du Ier Empire. Quelques commentaires sur l'évolution de ce caractère durant 238 ans. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 31e année, N. 4, 1976. pp. 677-699. doi : 10.3406/ahess.1976.293747 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ahess_0395-2649_1976_num_31_4_293747