Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France

by Andrea Mansker

Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France uncovers the unexplored history of matrimonial agents, their novel marketing tactics, and the rise of personal advertisements to track the commercialization of marriage in nineteenth-century France. Brokers transformed courtship and marriage into forms of commercial exchange, linking them to the burgeoning urban values of abundance, pleasure, and social mobility...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501778064
• ISBN13: 9781501778063
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"