Title Old age in the old regime : image and experience in eighteenth-century France / David G. Troyansky

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : illustrations 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 Analysis France Old persons, history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-251) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Older people -- 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 Aged -- history Public Opinion -- history HISTORY / Europe / France Old age. Old age -- Public opinion. Older people. Public opinion. Alter Ouderdom. Bejaarden. Geschichte (1700-1800) Geschichte (1700-1789) France. Frankreich Genre/Form History. Sources. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501746369 1501746367

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