{"product_id":"merchants-landlords-magistrates-9781421430416","title":"Merchants Landlords Magistrates","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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 institutionseconomic, religious, legal, administrativethe 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 the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. First Ascent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Paul-François Depont: Ennobled Merchant\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Mentality of a Provincial Notable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Family Fortune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Marshaling Assets\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Land: The Depont Domains over Three Generations (1700-1789)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Royal Administrator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Apprenticeship and Marriage\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Intendant of Moulins and Metz\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. \u003ci\u003eDouceur de Vivre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Revolution and Survival\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. A Young French Gentleman in Paris\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Survival: Metz, La Rochelle, and Paris\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue. Thirteen Portraits\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408129761623,"sku":"9781421430416","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421430416.jpg?v=1730501694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/merchants-landlords-magistrates-9781421430416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}