Author: Troyansky, David G.
Title: Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xv,260 pp.. Textual tables & illus.. Minor rubbing, slight bump to top spine-edge, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Aged in the French Population: Numbers & Meanings; A New Presence: Images of the Aged in Art; From Ridicule to Respect: Literary Discourses on Old Age; From Augustinian Retreat to Ciceronian Retirement: Religious and Secular Views; Reaching Old Age: Scientific and Medical Thought; The Social Context: The Aged in the Rural Family; The Aged, the City, and the Hospital; A Practical Enlightenment and a Deferential Revolution; Conclusion.

Keywords: French Historical Sociology, France, Old Regime, 18th Century, Old Age Aged Aging, Social History, Gerontology, Demography,