Domestic Enemies : Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France / / Cissie Fairchilds.

• Author: Fairchilds, Cissie C.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 325 pages :); illustrations)
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1984

This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their crim...