Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Michel Foucault, Arlette Farge

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

Michel Foucault, Arlette Farge

328 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from Franc...

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