Arlette Farge Book order

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Disorderly Families -- Introduction -- 1. Marital Discord -- LETTERS -- Households in Ruin -- The Imprisonment of Wives -- The Debauchery of Husbands -- The Tale of a Request -- 2. Parents and Children -- LETTERS -- The Disruption of Affairs -- Shameful Concubinage -- The Dishonor of Waywardness -- Domestic Violence -- Bad Apprentices -- Exiles -- Family Honor -- Parental Ethos, 1728: The Rationale for Sentiment -- Parental Ethos, 1758: The Duty to Educate -- 3. When Addressing the King -- Afterword to the English Edition -- Arlette Farge -- Notes -- Glossary of Places -- B -- C -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- S -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z

Originally published as Le Gout de l'archive. Editions du Seuil, 1989. Collection La Librairie du XXIe siecle sous la direction de Maurice Olender.

Gives an account of the everyday lives of Parisians in the eighteenth century. This work traces the solidarities and conflicts which arose between men and women, rich and poor, masters and servants, neighbours and colleagues. It paints a picture of a society in a process of mutation which was gradually constructing a fresh set of values.