Title Young subjects : children, state-building, and social reform in the eighteenth-century French world / Julia M. Gossard

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) Series States, people, and the history of social change ; 3 States, people, and the history of social change ; 3. Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Investing in Children: Lyon's Charitable Community -- The Lyonnais Laboratory: Educational Experimentation -- Children Spread Reform -- Parisian Children of the State -- Trafficking in Children: Pronatalism and Population in North America -- Children of the Empire: Cruxes of Imperial Strategy -- Epilogue: A Revolution in Childhood -- Notes -- Index Summary "Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France. Through a set of regional case studies, Julia M. Gossard demonstrates how thousands of children and youth were engaged in the service of the state. In Lyon, charity schools cultivated children as agents of moral and social reform who carried their lessons home to their families. In Paris, orphaned and imprisoned youth trained in skilled trades or prepared for military service, while others were sent to the French colonies in North America as filles du roi and sturdy labourers. Young people from merchant families were recruited to serve as cultural brokers and translators on behalf of French commerical interests in the Ottoman Empire and Siam. In each case, Gossard considers how these youth played, negotiated, and sometimes resisted their roles, and what expressions of individual identity and agency were available to subjects under the legal control of others. As sources of labour, future taxpayers, colonial subjects, cultural mediators, and potential criminals, children and youth were objects of intense interest for civic authorities. Young Subjects refocuses our attention on these often overlooked historical subjects who helped to build France."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2021) Subject Children -- France -- Social conditions -- 18th century Child labor -- France -- History -- 18th century Social reformers -- France -- History -- 18th century Social problems -- France -- History -- 18th century Children -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 18th century HISTORY / Europe / France Child labor Children -- Government policy Children -- Social conditions Social conditions Social problems Social reformers SUBJECT France -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051497 Subject France Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780228006909 0228006902 9780228006893 0228006899

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