The analysis of 85 years of food purchases at the rich, market-oriented Saint-Cyr convent School in the 18th century probes the determinants of consumption, its short-term variations and long-term shifts. Using time-series econometrics, we show that there is no equilibrium relationship between...

Les achats alimentaires des Dames de Saint-Cyr s'offrent comme une expérience de laboratoire pour l'analyse des pratiques et des normes de consommation qui nous renvoie à nos préoccupations actuelles concernant les possibilités d'infléchir des régimes alimentaires par les prix et la...

For 35 leading painters who worked in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses illustrations in French textbooks as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual paintings. The rankings closely resemble those obtained earlier from a similar analysis...