Innocence and experience: sexuality among young people in modern France, c. 1750-1950 [0.03%]
清与浊:现代法国青年的性行为(约1750-1950)
Colin Heywood
Colin Heywood
Prying into the sex lives of young people in the past has always proved a challenging exercise. Historians have often ended up relying on the testimony from adult observers or on the quantitative evidence provided by illegitimacy rates. Thi...
Jason T Kuznicki
Jason T Kuznicki
The Cadière-Girard trial of 1730-1731 is an early example of a sensational, nationally publicized French trial in which the major parties were private individuals. Cadière, a female penitent, accused Girard, her Jesuit confessor, of bewit...
A "theatre of rule?" Domestic service in aristocratic households under the Third Republic [0.03%]
第三共和国时期的贵族家庭中的仆役服务是一项“治家的艺术”吗?
Elizabeth C Macknight
Elizabeth C Macknight
E. P. Thompson developed the notion of "cultural hegemony" to analyse the power of the ruling class over the working class in eighteenth-century England. This article examines the aristocracy's endeavour to maintain its cultural hegemony in...
French soldiers and their correspondence: towards a history of writing practices in the First World War [0.03%]
一战中的法国士兵及其书信:书写实践的历史探析
Martyn Lyons
Martyn Lyons
The years 1914-18 engendered a "sudden and irrepressible boulimia" of letter-writing, a diluvian outpouring which defied all attempts at administrative control. The massive correspondence of French soldiers, analysed and quoted in the archi...
Traditional virtues, feudal ties and Royal Guards: the culture of service in the eighteenth-century "Maison Militaire du Roi" [0.03%]
传统的美德、封建的纽带与皇家卫队:18世纪“皇家军宅”中的侍从文化
David C OBrien
David C OBrien
Recent discussions of French army reform before the Revolution have revived interest in the more general topic of military culture in the ancien régime. One account of this period speaks of an evolution in criteria for military merit, one ...
Susan Broomhall
Susan Broomhall
The experience of prison remains a relatively little-studied aspect of late-medieval and early-modern criminalization of the activities of the poor. This study examines how poverty and gender influenced incarceration practices, treatment an...
Agrarian reform and ecological change during the Ancien régime: land clearance, peasants and viticulture in the province of Languedoc [0.03%]
论封建制度时期的土地改革和生态变化:朗格多克省的开荒、农民与葡萄种植业
Noelle Plack
Noelle Plack
The légende noire of the French Revolution has been the underlying paradigm of much modern French environmental history. This legend contends that peasants were reckless land clearers and tree cutters who disregarded the environment and un...
Donna Evleth
Donna Evleth
This paper examines the way in which the Jewish question was handled by the Ordre des Médecins, a representative institution for the medical profession created by the Vichy government. It discusses the historiography of Vichy anti-Semitism...
In Praise of Modest Men: self-display and self-effacement in nineteenth-century France [0.03%]
谦谦君子赞——19世纪法国的自我展示与自我湮灭
Stéphane Gerson
Stéphane Gerson
Nineteenth-century France underwent a process of individuation, or self-affirmation, that was at once political (elections), socio-economic (market forces and social promotion), and cultural (autobiographical writings). While some contempor...
Understanding household limitation strategies among the sixteenth-century urban poor in France [0.03%]
法国16世纪城市贫困人口的家庭限制策略及其理解
Susan Broomhall
Susan Broomhall
This essay explores what we can learn about the household limitation behaviour and strategies of those members of sixteenth-century French society who numbered among the mass of the poor. In particular, it focuses on the evidence produced b...