A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France

by Christine Adams

Book Overview

The Lamothes were an ordinary family in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. Well-to-do and well respected by their neighbors, they were local notables whose private and public lives suggest the importance of family, kin, and friendship networks, professional activities and cultural interests, as well as a desire to serve the public good. In this portrait of the Lamothes, Christine Adams explores the development of middle-class identity among urban professionals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019565
• ISBN13: 9780271019567
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"