Domestic Enemies : Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France

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

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...

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Main Author: Fairchilds, Cissie C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Subjects:
1700-1799
Master and servant > France > History > 18th century.
Household employees > France > History > 18th century.
Master and servant
Household employees
Dienstbote
Werkgevers.
Dienstpersoneel.
Sozialgeschichte 1600-1800.
Geschichte (1695-1789)
France.
France
Frankreich
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Domestic Service in the Old Regime
  • PART I. SERVANTS
  • 2. The Servants' World: Household and Housework
  • 3. Servants Private Lives
  • 4. The Psychology of Servanthood: Servants' Attitudes toward Their Masters
  • PART II. MASTERS AND SERVANTS
  • 5. The Psychology of Mastership: Masters' Attitudes toward Their Servants
  • 6. Sexual Relationships between Master and Servant
  • 7. Relationships between Servants and Their Masters' Children
  • 8. Epilogue: The Revolution and After
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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