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A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in EighteenthCentury France
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About the Author Christine Adams is Assistant Professor of History at St. Marys College of Maryland. She coedited, with Jack R. Censer and Lisa Jane Graham, Visions and Revisions of EighteenthCentury France (Penn State, 1997). Product Description The Lamothes were an ordinary family in eighteenthcentury Bordeaux. Welltodo and well respected by their neighbors, they were local notables whose private and public lives suggest the importance of family, kin, and friendship networks, professional activities and cultural interests, as well as a desire to serve the public good. In this portrait of the Lamothes, Christine Adams explores the development of middleclass identity among urban professionals and reconsiders the role of this social group in the coming French Revolution.The most striking feature of this family history is that it is based on more than three hundred personal letters that circulated among the Lamothesparents and seven siblingsover a period of twentyfive years. Such a collection is rare for this period, and Adams makes the most of it. Her study lends remarkable texture to provincial middleclass life. She weaves these letters into every aspect of the Lamothes experienceprofessional, literary, intellectual, social, and civic. She demonstrates a sustained mobilization of all family skills and resources to maintain the status of the males of the family and preserve (rather than risk) the familys emotional and material stability.While their conservative lifestyle suggests that the Lamothes were not revolutionary, they were, nonetheless, part of the bourgeoisie. Adams thus taps into a potent debate about middleclass consciousness and identity in the eighteenth century, arguing against those historians who doubt that such a social class existed in France before 1789. Review For any scholar examining the economic and financial viability of the family unit, or the degree to which family members related as a working and economic unit as well as an intimate one, this book not only offers a very important and convincing history but provides as well an impressive bibliography that is as thorough as it is interdisciplinary.Suzanne R. Pucci, Business History Review
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