Bande noire

In the first French Revolution and during the Restoration, the bande noire was the name for the companies of speculators and building contractors who bought the monasteries, estates of the emigrants, castles and the like that had been declared state property, as well as those bought by the abolition of the Fideikommisse and Majorate took over buildings put up for sale in order to separate or demolish them and to sell the building materials. This form of vandalism destroyed many historically and artistically valuable buildings.

literature

• Jules Michelet: Histoire de la Révolution française . Volume 9. A. Lemière, Paris 1888, pp. 147-159.
• Nicole Mozet: La bande noire ou un morceau d'histoire post-révolutionnaire dont la littérature n'a pas raconté l'histoire . In: Geoffrey T. Harris, Peter Michael Wetherill (Eds.): Littérature et révolutions en France . Rodopi, Amsterdam [u. a.] 1990, ISBN 90-5183-244-3 , pp. 61-75.
• Bande noire . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 2, pp. 358–359.