 | Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France Subjects: Aged -- France -- History -- 18th century; Old age -- France -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Public opinion -- France -- History -- 18th century; Old age -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Sources; This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care. David Troyansky is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. |
