LEADER 03356oam 22004694a 450 001 9910524694403321 005 20230831003017.0 010 $a1-4214-3041-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460796 035 $a(OCoLC)1117489024 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77205 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88823 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460796 100 $a19800414d1980 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMerchants, Landlords, Magistrates$eThe Depont Family in Eighteenth-Century France /$fRobert Forster 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2019 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d1980. 210 4$dİ1980. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 275 p. :)$cmap ; 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4214-3081-9 311 $a1-4214-3002-9 330 $aOriginally published in 1980. A social historian of modern France, Robert Forster discovered a series of father-to-son letters that presented an unusual opportunity to trace in human terms the impact of institutions and cultural norms on eighteenth-century French society. From these letters and other family papers, Forster reconstructed a family biography of the Deponts of La Rochelle over four generations. Their story affords new insights into the workings of institutions?economic, religious, legal, administrative?the mentality of provincial notables, the world of Parisian high finance and salon society, and the response of a socially mobile family to the challenges of the century, climaxing in the French Revolution of 1789. Forster demonstrates how real people in an upwardly mobile family coped with their changing society, moved from overseas trade to local and then national office, managed their wealth, treated their children, and then parried the psychological shocks accompanying their ascent to status and power. It is the story not of a "class" response to abstract trends or forces identified by the historian in retrospect but of flesh-and-blood human beings grappling with day-to-day decisions and revealing a full range of human ambiguity and inconsistency. This study offers perspective on the emergence by 1800 of a new elite in France?a social amalgam of landlords, administrators, and professional men, inculcated with a national awareness and a cautious political liberalism. These were the notables who would govern France in the next century. Forster's approach, uncommon among social historians, combines narrative and analytical modes of historiography. Based on archival materials in La Rochelle and Paris, the book blends economic, social, cultural, and political history. 606 $aFamilies$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSocial mobility$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xSocial conditions$y18th century 610 $aBiography: historical, political & military 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory 615 0$aSocial mobility$xHistory 676 $a305.5/0944 700 $aForster$b Robert$f1926-2020.$01383324 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524694403321 996 $aMerchants, Landlords, Magistrates$93428147 997 $aUNINA