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In seventeenth-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, Family Business reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena.

Sex in an Old Regime City is a major reframing of the long history of young people's intimacy. It shows how long- running problems like out-of-wedlock pregnancy were handled very differently in Old Regime France than in more recent centuries. Abortion, infanticide, broken hearts, and conflict with parents and neighbors were key challenges of young people's lives then as now but young couples' efforts to deal with these challenges were supporte...

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