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Old Age in the Old Regime : Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France / David Troyansky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 b&w photographs, 2 illustrations, 12 tables, 4 graphsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501746369
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.2/6/0944
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Aged in the French Population: Numbers and Meanings -- 2. A New Presence: Images of the Aged in Art -- 3. From Ridicule to Respect: Literary Discourses on Old Age -- 4. From Augustinian Retreat to Ciceronian Retirement: Religious and Secular Views -- 5. Reaching Old Age: Scientific and Medical Thought -- 6. The Social Context: The Aged in the Rural Family -- 7. The Aged, the City, and the Hospital -- 8. A Practical Enlightenment and a Deferential Revolution -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Aged in the French Population: Numbers and Meanings -- 2. A New Presence: Images of the Aged in Art -- 3. From Ridicule to Respect: Literary Discourses on Old Age -- 4. From Augustinian Retreat to Ciceronian Retirement: Religious and Secular Views -- 5. Reaching Old Age: Scientific and Medical Thought -- 6. The Social Context: The Aged in the Rural Family -- 7. The Aged, the City, and the Hospital -- 8. A Practical Enlightenment and a Deferential Revolution -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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