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Hardcover Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Book

ISBN: 0816695342

ISBN13: 9780816695348

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

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The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille

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 France's Ancien R?gime were often associated with excessive royal...

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