Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

by Michel Foucault and Arlette Farge

Book Overview

The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille

Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France's Ancien R?gime were often associated with excessive royal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816695342
• ISBN13: 9780816695348
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"