Becoming bourgeois
Subtitle: love, kinship, and power in provincial France, 1670-1880
By: Christopher H. Johnson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ithaca; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780801453984
Subjects: Social conditions; Middle class; Families; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ascent (1670-1800); title: The way of print; title: Talent and marriage; title: Cultural capital; title: Printers, intellectuals; title: Bourgeois de Vannes, Bourgeois de Paris; title: Kinsmen (and women) to the rescue: the saga of Jean-Nicolas Galles; title: Kin and connection in the book trade; title: Love and agony in Paris; title: The revolutions of the Galles family; title: Economic establishment: Veuve Galles and the articulation of power; title: Expanding horizons; title: Cultural leadership and bourgeois ascent; title: Political establishment: three families merge; title: Surviving the French Revolution (if not childbed fever); title: Bourgeois culture (1800-1880); title: The sibling archipelago; title: Talented royalists accommodate Bonaparte; title: A new generation and a renewed polity; title: A sibling courtship; title: Cousin marriage and the political integration of Vannes' bourgeoisie; title: Mon Adèle; title: Fulfillment and the first-born; title: Establishment: a joint venture; title: Public service; title: Notre Adèle; title: Settling in; title: The great crisis; title: Affairs military and domestic; title: Living class; title: Guadeloupe; title: The chosen: educating René; title: Pont Sal; title: Exile and redemption: a mother's will; title: Family matters; title: Into the world; title: La vie d'un polytechnicien Breton; title: The kinship elite; title: Career and guidance; title: Weathering revolution, again: Adèle, femme politique; title: Fulfillment: René wed; title: The legacy: bourgeois nation-building and civic leadership; title: Nation-building by kinship; title: Leadership; title: The national stage: combating le Bretonisme; title: Conclusions.