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Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France

Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France

Fairchilds, Cissie

Paperback

French HistoryGeographyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1421432021
ISBN13: 9781421432021
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes.

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