Working, flirting and intercourse: courtship in 18th-century France

Detail from Le Faux Pas (c1716-18) by Antoine Watteau. Courtesy the Louvre, Paris

is John E Green Regents Professor of History and Distinguished Teaching Professor during the University of Texas at Austin. She actually is the writer for the Practice of Patriarchy (1998), Family company (2009) and Intercourse in a classic Regime City (2020).

Edited by Sam Haselby

In 1723, Jean Pillot and Marguerite Perricaud begun to see one another frequently. They both worked in textile production in Lyon, France’s city that is second. They went for a and he promised marriage year. She told him he needed to ask her father. They took very very long walks together after work and on Sundays, during that they developed a real and emotional intimacy that paved the way in which for wedding. (more…)