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Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Author: Arlette Farge, Michel Foucault
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 Régime were often associated with excessive royal power and seen as a way for the king to...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816695348
ISBN-10: 0816695342
Publication Date: 1/1/2017
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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