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 sudy during the University of Texas at Austin. She actually is the writer regarding 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 often see each other. They both worked in textile manufacturing in Lyon, France’s 2nd town. They sought out for a 12 months in which he promised marriage. She told him he had to inquire of her father. They took very very long walks together after finishing up work and on Sundays, during that they developed a physical and emotional closeness that paved the way for marriage. Marguerite told a co-worker which they adored one another. Young couples talks that are sex had been tightly woven into talks about matrimony. Neighbors usually saw them together. Their relationship developed as being a general public matter in view associated with the community.
One night, Jean arrived to Marguerite’s space by having a candle that is lit locked the entranceway with an integral. That he loved her, and promised that he would never have another woman as she recalled later, he insisted. He then seized her by the hands, tossed her regarding the sleep and, despite all her resistance, had intercourse together with her twice, all while continuing to guarantee which he wouldn’t be along with other ladies and she didn’t should be afraid. They proceeded to see one another also to have intercourse because, she still expected to get married as she explained later. Continue reading Working, flirting and sex: courtship in 18th-century France