Disorderly families : infamous letters from the Bastille Archives

Disorderly families : infamous letters from the Bastille Archives /

"Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France's Ancien Regime were often associated wi...

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Corporate Authors: Gallimard (Firm), Archives de la Bastille
Other Authors: Farge, Arlette (Compiler), Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 (Compiler), Luxon, Nancy (Editor), Scott-Railton, Thomas (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016
Subjects:
Lettres de cachet.
Families > France > History > 18th century.
lettres de cachet.
France > Social conditions > 18th century.
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