Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

Arlette Farge,Michel Foucault

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Published
14 March 2017
Pages
328
ISBN
9780816695348

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

Arlette Farge,Michel Foucault

First published in French in 1982, this first English translation of Disorderly Families contains ninety-four letters collected by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault from ordinary families who submitted complaints to the king of France in the eighteenth century to intervene and resolve their family disputes. Together, these letters offer unusual insight into the infamies of daily life.

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