CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE FRENCH PENSION LEGISLATION AT THE INITIAL STAGE OF ITS FORMATION
(UNTIL THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY) 

Aleksandrova Anna Viktorovna, Candidate of juridical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of state and law disciplines, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), E-mail: ann-alexandrova@mail.ru 

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10.21685/2072-3016-2020-3-1 

Background. The relevance of the study is due to the crisis of modern pension systems and repeated attempts to improve the situation through legislative reforms (both in our country and in foreign countries). The aim of the study is to identify and analyze the political and legal doctrines that underlie the French pension legislation during its formation. The significance of the study consists in identifying ideas, concepts, principles that were used in the formation of acts of pension legislation at various stages of its development, and in finding opportunities to apply these ideas in modern conditions.
Materials and methods. The research methodology involves the use of a universal dialectical method of cognition, as well as a number of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, systemic-structural method) and specific scientific methods (historical and legal, comparative legal, formal legal, statistical). The scope of the study is limited to the period until the end of the 19th century, when the foundations of pension legislation were laid in France.
Results. The political and legal concepts that form the basis of the French pension legislation at the initial stage of its development are revealed. The normative acts on the support of the elderly people, adopted during this period, are analyzed.
Conclusions. In the course of the development of pension legislation that took place in France until the end of the 19th century, the ideas of foresight, self-help and individual responsibility were gradually replaced by ideas of social solidarity, collective mutual assistance and subsidiary participation of the state in providing for the elderly people, which were based on the ideas of the Enlightenment about the right of everyone to life and dignified existence. 

pension, personality, insurance, security, mutual assistance, state, legislation 

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