Abstract
Bearn's institutions, the For and the Laws of the Estates, implicitly accorded the right to hunt to all, and in spite of the efforts of the nobility, this constitutional liberty remained intact up to the Revolution. Hunting was the object of political ans social rivalries as well as being one of the traditional forms of sociability : to the noble civilization that developped complicity between man and animal was opposed that of rural folk more concerned with controlling space. The right to hunt determined behavior that shines light on the way the Ancien Regime functionned in Bearn.
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