... of the Galles’s inner circle, namely, the Jollivets and the Le Ridants, and how their fortunes intertwined. It also considers the bourgeois ascent and cultural leadership of the Galles and concludes by assessing the fate of the Galles–Jollivet–Le Ridant family after the French Revolution. It shows that all three...

... with consanguineous marriage, sociability, and the structures of power in the family’s interior that mark the bourgeois way of life in nineteenth-century France. Beyond their personal paths to becoming “bourgeois,” the book documents the Galles–Jollivet–Le Ridant family’s entry into an elite that was intricately...

... the emotional significance of cousin marriage and sibling love in how the members of the Galles–Jollivet–Le Ridant family handled the Guadeloupe situation. Brest class Galles Jean Marie II “Galles ” Galles Louise Marie neé Saint Britain de Cousalin General Forty Eighth Regiment Galles Eugène Félix...