Fragile Lives: Violence, Power, and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris

by Arlette Farge, Carol Shelton (Editor)

313p hardback, fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, without names or stamps or markings, first edition

Genres: History, Nonfiction, France, 18th Century

314 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Arlette Farge est historienne spécialiste du XVIIIe siècle. Elle a publié de nombreux ouvrages, parmi lesquels La Vie fragile. Violence, pouvoirs et solidarités à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Le Goût de l'archive, et, avec Michel Foucault, Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet des Archives de la Bastille au XVIIIe siècle.

Reviews

[Sean Mccarrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fragile Lives covers the world of 18th century Paris and the common folk who inhabited it. There are three foci to this within the book. They are, women and children, labor, and crowds/phenomena. All in all this book was really amazing. The way in which Farge painted a pictured of the working classes of Paris using only archival evidence was quite astounding. That being said it was also a bit hard to get through, and the quirks of European history writing appear frequently in this book. That being said it was a well done piece of history.