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Becoming Bourgeois - Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670-1880 (Hardcover)
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Becoming Bourgeois - Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670-1880 (Hardcover)
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Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in
the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany-Galles, Jollivet, and Le
Ridant-who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military,
public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Revisiting complex issues
of bourgeois class formation from the perspective of the interior
lives of families, Christopher H. Johnson argues that the most
durable and socially advantageous links forging bourgeois ascent
were those of kinship. Economic success, though certainly derived
from the virtues of hard work and intelligent management, was
always underpinned by marriage strategies and the diligent
intervention of influential family members.Johnson's examination of
hundreds of personal letters opens up a whole world: the
vicissitudes of courtship; the centrality of marriage; the depths
of conjugal love; the routines of pregnancy and the drama of
childbirth; the practices of child rearing and education; the
powerful place of siblings; the role of kin in advancing the next
generation; tragedy and deaths; the enormous contributions of women
in all aspects of becoming bourgeois; and the pleasures of
gathering together in intimate soirees, grand balls, country
houses, and civic and political organizations. Family love bound it
all together, and this is ultimately what this book is about, as
four generations of rather ordinary provincial people capture our
hearts.
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