Merchants, Landlords, Magistrates The Depont Family in Eighteenth-Century France

• Auteur principal: Forster, Robert (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Sujets: Biography: historical, political & military
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1980. A social historian of modern France, Robert Forster discovered a series of father-to-son letters that presented an unusual opportunity to trace in human terms the impact of institutions and cultural norms on eighteenth-century French society. From these letters and othe...