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035 _a(OCoLC)1127554847
040 _aMdBmJHUP
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100 1 _aFairchilds, Cissie C.
245 1 0 _aDomestic Enemies :
_bServants and Their Masters in Old Regime France /
_cCissie Fairchilds.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2019
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2019
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (346 pages):
_billustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1984.
500 _aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
500 _aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
505 0 _a1. 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
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aThis 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 criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancient regime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assumptions that underlay the employment of servants. It also shows how both these attitudes and the households themselves changed dramatically in the last decades before the French Revolution. Part 1 is devoted to the servants themselves. One chapter deals with their lives within their employers' households: their work, their living conditions, their socializing and leisure-time activities. A second examines their private lives: their social origins, marriage and family patterns, their moneymaking and their criminality. And a third explores their relationships with and attitudes toward their masters. In part 2, the focus shifts to an examination of master-servant relationships from the masters' point of view. The first chapter deals with master-servant relationships in general by discussing the factors that determined how employers treated their domestics. The second and third chapters explore two special relationships: masters' sexual relationships with their servants and their relationships with the servants who cared for them in childhood. The epilogue traces the impact of the French Revolution on domestic service and sketches some of the changes in the household that were to come in the nineteenth century.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 7 _aGeschichte (1695-1789)
_2swd
650 0 7 _aSozialgeschichte 1600-1800.
_2swd
650 1 7 _aDienstpersoneel.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aWerkgevers.
_2gtt
650 7 _aDienstbote
_2gnd
650 7 _aHousehold employees.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01730010
650 7 _aMaster and servant.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01011553
650 6 _aEmployeur et employe (Droit)
_zFrance
_xHistoire
_y18e siecle.
650 6 _aEmployes de maison
_zFrance
_xHistoire
_y18e siecle.
650 0 _aHousehold employees
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aMaster and servant
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
651 7 _aFrankreich
_2gnd
651 7 _aFrance.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204289
651 0 _aFrance
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/71470/
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