Becoming Bourgeois : Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670-1880 /

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This book 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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, Christopher H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Middle class.
Families.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Familles > France.
Families > France.
Middle class > France > History > 18th century.
Middle class > France > History > 19th century.
France.
France > Conditions sociales > 18e siecle.
France > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
France > Social conditions > 18th century.
France > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ascent (1670-1800)
  • The way of print
  • Talent and marriage
  • Cultural capital
  • Printers, intellectuals
  • Bourgeois de Vannes, Bourgeois de Paris
  • Kinsmen (and women) to the rescue: the saga of Jean-Nicolas Galles
  • Kin and connection in the book trade
  • Love and agony in Paris
  • The revolutions of the Galles family
  • Economic establishment: Veuve Galles and the articulation of power
  • Expanding horizons
  • Cultural leadership and bourgeois ascent
  • Political establishment: three families merge
  • Surviving the French Revolution (if not childbed fever)
  • Bourgeois culture (1800-1880)
  • The sibling archipelago
  • Talented royalists accommodate Bonaparte
  • A new generation and a renewed polity
  • A sibling courtship
  • Cousin marriage and the political integration of Vannes' bourgeoisie
  • Mon Adele
  • Fulfillment and the first-born
  • Establishment: a joint venture
  • Public service
  • Notre Adele
  • Settling in
  • The great crisis
  • Affairs military and domestic
  • Living class
  • Guadeloupe
  • The chosen: educating Rene
  • Pont Sal
  • Exile and redemption: a mother's will
  • Family matters
  • Into the world
  • La vie d'un polytechnicien Breton
  • The kinship elite
  • Career and guidance
  • Weathering revolution, again: Adele, femme politique
  • Fulfillment: Rene wed
  • The legacy: bourgeois nation-building and civic leadership
  • Nation-building by kinship
  • Leadership
  • The national stage: combating le Bretonisme
  • Conclusions.

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