Old Age in the Old Regime : : Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France / / David Troyansky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Troyansky, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Troyansky, David G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 12 b&w photographs, 2 illustrations, 12 tables, 4 graphs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations, Figures, and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. The Aged in the French Population: Numbers and Meanings --; 2. A New Presence: Images of the Aged in Art --; 3. From Ridicule to Respect: Literary Discourses on Old Age --; 4. From Augustinian Retreat to Ciceronian Retirement: Religious and Secular Views --; 5. Reaching Old Age: Scientific and Medical Thought --; 6. The Social Context: The Aged in the Rural Family --; 7. The Aged, the City, and the Hospital --; 8. A Practical Enlightenment and a Deferential Revolution --; Conclusion --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746369; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746369
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Troyansky.

This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.