WOMEN IN 17TH CENTURY FRANCE by Wendy Gibson ( 9780333463956 )

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Title:

WOMEN IN 17TH CENTURY FRANCE

By:

Wendy Gibson

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0333463951

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9780333463956

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

17 July, 1989

Pages:

447

Description:

An account of the public and private life of ladies - and women - in 17th century France from birth until death. Gibson describes a superficially civilized society, beset by social deprivation, ignorance and superstition, in which women were engaged alongside men in a struggle for sheer survival.

Synopsis:

This book aims to trace the life of the seventeenth-century Frenchwoman from cradle to the grave through mainly contemporary primary sources which include just about everything from collections of laws to traveller's tales. Rather than reworking and refuting the twentieth-century experts in the field, the author works directly through from birth and childhood through matrimony, women at work, and in political life, manners and religion to conclusive death.

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biography

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Palgrave Macmillan

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