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Order and Disorder under the Ancien Regime (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Order and Disorder under the Ancien Regime (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This collection of revised and previously unpublished articles
explores aspects of the history of monarchy, family, suicide, and
sodomy in early modern, especially eighteenth-century France. The
durable but flexible traditions of the Ancien Regime not only
sanctified but also limited the prerogatives of sovereigns over
subjects and husbands/fathers/masters over wives, children, and
servants. Private and public weakness and excess in those who ruled
the kingdom and the household undermined their masculinity and
legitimacy. Merrick analyzes expositions of and contestations about
the origins, extent, and use and abuse of gendered royal and
domestic authority in a wide variety of sources, including
descriptions of beehives, pamphlets published during the Fronde,
statues of Louis XV, police reports about disturbed subjects,
parlementary remonstrances, Jansenist polemics, essays submitted to
the Academy of Berlin, the memoirs of the marquis de Bombelles, and
complaints of wives against husbands and marital separation cases
in Paris.In principle, kings and husbands/fathers/masters preserved
order in the kingdom and the household by controlling themselves as
well as their subordinates. In practice, they sometimes provoked
disorder and failed in many ways to prevent and punish disorder.
Merrick's articles on suicide and sodomy not only revisit some
celebrated incidents (the deaths of the dragoons Bourdeaux and
Humain, who shot themselves on 25 December 1773) and notorious
characters (the "pederast" marquis de Villette and "tribade"
mademoiselle de Raucourt) but also document patterns in the lives
and deaths of ordinary men and women. Based, like the articles on
marital disputes, on extensive archival research, they investigate
changes in jurisprudence and mentalities during the eighteenth
century. As a whole, this volume challenges simplistic assumptions
about absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution. Given the number
of subjects addressed and the nature of the issues involved, the
engaging articles will interest many readers.
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