- Recherches sur la société Victorienne.

Victorian England is situated from 1848 till 1886. The Victorian time indicates literally the period of the queen Victoria.
It was mainly marked by the boom of the industrial revolution where known England a prosperity economic intense . The Victorian prosperity based on three facts: the free trade, the adaptation of the agriculture, the industrial development.
London, among which the city and the warehouses were the center of the world economy, extended and embellishes. It became the first port of redistribution of the world: the tea, the coffee, the wool, the cotton and many other raw materials accumulated, come from the whole world there, to be resold in the countries of Europe.
This period was thus very rich in innovations (as James Watt's steam engine in 1769) and in discoveries (as the theory of Darwin on the evolution of the species).
It is also the period in the course of which new manners to think go appear, we fight thanks to labor unions and demonstrations (as those for the right to vote of the women).
During this period we shall also note the big series of murders very known for Jack the “éventreur”.
On the social plan, the aristocracy for example mixs easily with the new “bourgeoisie” and participates in the industrial and commercial business. The semi-skilled workers, as for them, formed an elite which grouped in labor unions or Trade unions (not socialists) which dealt directly with the bosses. Including the poorest workers could feed decently thanks to the prices practised in England, many also put their hopes in the