 | Becoming Bourgeois: Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670–1880 Subjects: France -- Social conditions -- 19th century; France -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Middle class -- France -- History -- 19th century; Middle class -- France -- History -- 18th century; Families -- France; Becoming Bourgeois 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. Christopher H. Johnson is Professor of History Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is the author of Utopian Communism in France, The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920 , and Maurice Sugar and coeditor most recently of Blood and Kinship . |
