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Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic

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Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic - Heywood, Colin
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How did French people write about their own childhood and youth between the 1760s and the 1930s? Colin Heywood argues that this was a critical period in the history of young people, as successive generations moved from the relatively stable and hierarchical society of the Ancien R???gime to a more fluid one produced by the industrial and democratic revolutions of the period. The main sources he uses are first-hand accounts of growing up: letters, diaries, childhood reminiscences and autobiographies. The book's first section ...

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Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521123112

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