FEATURES OF SOCIAL POLICY IN RELATION TO POOR IN FRANCE ON DRAUGHT OF XVIII–XIX OF CENTURIES FEATURES

Abstract

The article examines the historical conditions that gave rise to the French social policy for poor and particularity of its development during XVIII–XIX centuries. Social policy that begun from repressions against vagabonds and beggars, gradually included positive measures regarding indigents. After the Revolution of 1789 poor relief was declared as the sacred debt. But poor relief did not become the legal obligation of the state. Until XX century citizens were deprived of the legal right to raise a claim.