Deviants and the abandoned in French society
Subtitle: selections from the Annales, économies, sociétés, civilisations, volume IV
By: edited by Robert Forster and Orest Ranum ; translated by Elborg Forster and Patricia M. Ranum.
Contributors: Forster, Robert, 1926-; Ranum, Orest A.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Crime -- France -- History; Deviant behavior; Marginality, Social -- France -- History
Other titles: Annales (Paris, France : 1946)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Rossiaud, J. Prostitution, youth, and society in the towns of southeastern France in the fifteenth century.; title: Delasselle, C. Abandoned children in eighteenth-century Paris.; title: Zysberg, A. Galley rowers in the mid-eighteenth century.; title: Castan, N. Summary justice.; title: Abbiateci, A. Arsonists in eighteenth-century France.; title: Bleandonu, G. and Le Gaufey, G. The creation of the insane asylums of Auxerre and Paris.; title: Perrot, M. Delinquency and the penitentiary system in nineteenth-century France.