Servants and Masters in 18th-Century France : : The Uses of Loyalty / / Sarah C. Maza.

Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation, aristocratic in style and often geared to public display, to one that was female, middle-class, and centered o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 745
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • List of lllustrations
  • Abbreviations and Note on Translations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. THE WORLD OF THE SERVANTS
  • CHAPTER 1. Jobs of Necessity
  • CHAPTER 2. Love and Money
  • CHAPTER 3. Life on the Threshold
  • PART TWO. THE WILL OF THE MASTERS
  • CHAPTER 4. Life in the Household
  • CHAPTER 5. The Uses of Loyalty
  • PART THREE. BREAKING THE COVENANT
  • CHAPTER 6. Aristocratic Service in the Age of Enlightenment
  • CHAPTER 7. The Domestication of Service
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIXES
  • SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Index
  • Backmatter