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Disorderly Families - Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives (Paperback)
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Disorderly Families - Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives (Paperback)
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The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth
century France held in the archives of the Bastille 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 with excessive royal power and seen as a way for the
king to imprison political opponents. In Disorderly Families, first
published in French in 1982, Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault
collect ninety-four letters from ordinary families who, with the
help of hired scribes, submitted complaints to the king to
intervene and resolve their family disputes. Gathered together,
these letters show something other than the exercise of arbitrary
royal power, and offer unusual insight into the infamies of daily
life. From these letters come stories of divorce and marital
conflict, sexual waywardness, reckless extravagance, and
abandonment. The letters evoke a fluid social space in which life
in the home and on the street was regulated by the rhythms of
relations between husbands and wives, or parents and children. Most
impressively, these letters outline how ordinary people seized the
mechanisms of power to address the king and make demands in the
name of an emerging civil order. Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault
were fascinated by the letters' explosive qualities and by how they
both illustrated and intervened in the workings of power and
governmentality. Disorderly Families sheds light on Foucault's
conception of political agency and his commitment to theorizing how
ordinary lives come to be touched by power. This first English
translation is complete with an introduction from the book's
editor, Nancy Luxon, as well as notes that contextualize the
original 1982 publication and eighteenth-century policing
practices.
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