Seeking Separations
Gender, Marriages, and Household Economies in Early Modern France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Hardwick (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-157 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286931 |
| OpenAlex | W2312616199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
Accounts of the experiences of women seeking separations in early modern France are gripping. In 1636, for example, Marye Oger petitioned the Nantais provost's court for a separation of person and property from her second husband, Jean Renault, a miller. Witnesses attested to years of violence capped by an incident two weeks earlier that had captured the attention of the immediate neighborhood. Late one Saturday evening, Oger's shrieks from her window brought everyone within earshot outside. They saw her run onto the balcony, screaming that she thought she had married a man who would govern her as a husband should, whereas she was abused daily. Renault grabbed her hand, saying that he had not touched her even as he continued to hit her, and pulled her back inside. Witnesses then heard him strike her more than thirty times. Such was the disturbance that the provost of the city was summoned. A shouting match between Renault and the neighbors ensued as they insisted that he let the provost in to see what he had done to his wife.' The neighbors' accounts of that evening were embedded in stories of earlier abuse. They recalled nights when Oger and her children had been ejected from their rooms and forced to take shelter with neighbors or with the children of her first marriage. They recounted Oger's fears that Renault would kill her and Renault's threats that he would not kill her but would beat her so severely that she would die of it later
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| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |