Permanent Land Register

…Born in a small town in northern France to a poor family of tax collectors, Babeuf received no formal education, except that his father taught him how to read and write. He worked as an apprentice to a manorial administrator from the age of 17, and eventually became independent as a land registry administrator for a manorial administrator in the town of Loix, near his hometown. His experiences during this time opened his eyes to social issues, including land issues. He became familiar with the works of Enlightenment thinkers and corresponded with the Academy of Arras, and gradually came to embrace radical reform ideas. Based on his own experiences, he wrote The Permanent Cadastre, which aimed to equalize wealth and reform the tax system by redistributing farmland, from 1787 to 1789, and published it in 1789. When the Revolution broke out in the same year, he went to Paris alone and was deeply impressed. After returning to Loix, he worked hard to organize the peasant movement in the region, and in 1792 he became a district administrator, but was forced out of his job by his political enemies for making mistakes in his work. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Permanent Land Register" are listed below.

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…北フランスの小都市で貧しい徴税役人の家に生まれ，父親から読み書きを教えられただけで正規の教育を受けなかったバブーフは，17歳ころから領主の所領管理人のもとで徒弟として働き，やがて故郷に近いロアという町でみずからも領主の土地台帳管理人として自立し，その間の経験から土地問題をはじめとする社会問題に目を開かれた。さらに啓蒙思想家たちの著作に親しみ，アラスのアカデミーと文通などをするうち，しだいに急進的な改革思想を抱くにいたり，1787年から89年にかけて自分の経験をもとに，農地の再分配による富の平等化と租税制度の改革を目ざす《永久土地台帳》を書き上げ，89年に出版した。同年に革命が勃発すると，単身パリに出て深い感銘を受け，ロアに戻ってからは，その地方の農民運動の組織化に尽力し，92年には地区の行政官になったが，職務上のミスを政敵につかれて職を追われた。…

※「《永久土地台帳》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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