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A taste for comfort and status : a bourgeois family in eighteenth-century France / Christine Adams.
Van Pelt Library DC801.B72 A33 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Christine, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lamothe family.
- Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France).
- Middle class families--France--Bordeaux--History--18th century.
- Middle class families.
- Physical Description:
- x, 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- Part I Identity Through Family And Friends
- 1 "En Famille": The Private Life of the Lamothes 17
- 2 "Menager ta bourse": Management of the Family Fortune 51
- 3 The Wider Circle: Kin and Friends 87
- Part II Identity Through Profession
- 4 The Professional Man and the World of Law 115
- 5 The Professional Identity of the Physician 151
- Part III Identity Through Cultural Activities
- 6 Civic Pride and Public Service: The Academies of Bordeaux 191
- 7 "Savoir et Savoir-Vivre": The Cultural Life of the Lamothe Brothers 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271019557
- 0271019565
- OCLC:
- 40538288
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