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Old age in the old regime : image and experience in eighteenth-century France
- Title
- Old age in the old regime : image and experience in eighteenth-century France / David G. Troyansky.
- Author
- Troyansky, David G.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ1064.F7 T76 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 260 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Older people > France > History > 18th century
- Old age > France > Public opinion > History > 18th century
- Public opinion > France > History > 18th century
- Old age > France > History > Sources. > 18th century
- Aged > history
- Public Opinion > history
- Old age
- Old age > Public opinion
- Older people
- Public opinion
- Alter
- Ouderdom
- Bejaarden
- Old age > France > History > 18th century
- Geschichte (1700-1800)
- Geschichte (1700-1789)
- France
- Frankreich
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Sources.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [221]-251.
- Contents
- The aged in the French population: Numbers and meanings -- A new presence: Images of the aged in art -- From ridicule to respect: Literary discourses on old age -- From Augustinian retreat to Ciceronian retirement: Religious and secular views -- Reaching old age: Scientific and medical thought -- The social context: The aged in the rural family -- The aged, the city, and the hospital-- A practical enlightenment and a deferential revolution.
- ISBN
- 080142299X
- 9780801422997
- LCCN
- 88043286
- OCLC
- ocm18950090
- 18950090
- SCSB-1895766
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library