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Footnotes for Orest Ranum's "Fathers and Sons"

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1. See the classic study by A. Daumard and F. Furet, Structures et relations sociales à Paris au XVIII^e siècle (Paris, 1961); R. Mousnier, La stratification sociale au XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles (Paris, 1976), and for the earlier centuries, J. Lafon, Régimes matrimoniaux et mutations sociales, les époux Bordelais, 1450-1550 (Paris, 1972).

2. There were 12 editions of Chesterfield's letters to his son in the two years after their publication, 1774-1776. A French edition appeared in 1774, and there were subsequent editions, and a German edition 1774-1776. The major editions as listed in the BM catalogue have subsequently been 1872, 1901, 1902, 1917, 1926, and 1929. A more significant test for popularity of a work is, of course, whether or not portions of it were included in anthologies and magazines. The analysis of popular English language anthologies by author and topic is still to be undertaken for the nineteenth century.

3. The standard work on Racine and his family is R. Picard, La Carrière de Racine (Paris, 1961).

4. The history of the Caron family has not been as well researched as that of Racine. See B. Morton's Introduction to Beaumarchais, Correspondence (Paris, 1969) I - II

5. The most convenient place to find Racine's correspondence now is R. Picard, ed., Oeuvres complètes; prose (Paris; 1966), of the Pléiade collection.

6. Oeuvres complètes, prose, II, p. 612.

7. Ibid., p. 557. See also the scolding Jean-Baptiste receives for wasting time while his parents are paying dearly for tutors to give him an education.

8. Ibid., II, p. 593

9. Ibid., II, p. 619.

10. Ibid., II, p. 619.

11. Ibid., II, p. 609.

12. Ibid., II, p. 557

13. Ibid., II, p. 622.

14. Ibid., II, p. 585.

15. Ibid., II, p. 552

16. Ibid., II, p. 630f

17. Ibid., II, p. 618.

18. Picard, La Carrière..., p. 553ff.

19. Morton, B., ed. cit., Introduction

20. Ibid., p. 3f.

21. Ibid., p. 32.

22. Ibid., p. 79.

23. Ibid., p. 78.

24. Ibid., p. 117f.

25. Ibid., p. 113.

26. Ibid., p. 137.

27. Ibid., p. 143.

28. Ibid., p. 145.

29. Ibid., p. 119.

30. Ibid., p. 121.

31. Ibid., p. 123.

32. Ibid., p. 132.

33. Ibid., p. 135.

34. Ibid., p. 164

35. Ibid., p. 155.

36. Ibid., p. 215.

37. Afterthoughts on Material Life and Capitalism, trans. by Patricia M. Ranum (Baltimore, 1977) passim.

38. The House of Saulx-Tavannes (Baltimore, 1971) passim.

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