| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The ascent (1670-1800) -- The way of print -- Talent and marriage -- Cultural capital -- Printers, intellectuals -- Bourgeois de Vannes, Bourgeois de Paris -- Kinsmen (and women) to the rescue: the saga of Jean-Nicolas Galles -- Kin and connection in the book trade -- Love and agony in Paris -- The revolutions of the Galles family -- Economic establishment: Veuve Galles and the articulation of power -- Expanding horizons -- Cultural leadership and bourgeois ascent -- Political establishment: three families merge -- Surviving the French Revolution (if not childbed fever) -- Bourgeois culture (1800-1880) -- The sibling archipelago -- Talented royalists accommodate Bonaparte -- A new generation and a renewed polity -- A sibling courtship -- Cousin marriage and the political integration of Vannes' bourgeoisie -- Mon Adèle -- Fulfillment and the first-born -- Establishment: a joint venture -- Public service -- Notre Adèle -- Settling in -- The great crisis -- Affairs military and domestic -- Living class -- Guadeloupe -- The chosen: educating René -- Pont Sal -- Exile and redemption: a mother's will -- Family matters -- Into the world -- La vie d'un polytechnicien Breton -- The kinship elite -- Career and guidance -- Weathering revolution, again: Adèle, femme politique -- Fulfillment: René wed -- The legacy: bourgeois nation-building and civic leadership -- Nation-building by kinship -- Leadership -- The national stage: combating le Bretonisme -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
This book traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany - Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant - who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Revisiting complex issues of bourgeois class formation in France from the perspective of the interior lives of families, the book argues that the most durable and socially advantageous links forging bourgeois ascent were those of kinship. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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France. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Middle class -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Middle class. |
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History. |
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Middle class -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Families -- France.
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Families. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Christopher H. Becoming bourgeois 9780801453984 (DLC) 2015010560 (OCoLC)905344251 |
| ISBN |
9781501701290 (electronic book) |
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1501701290 (electronic book) |
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9780801453984 |
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0801453984 |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9781501701290 |
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ebc4189244 |
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