Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715.

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This study began from an essentially bibliographical curiosity. In the late 1970s I became interested in the mass of memoirs that the French nobility produced during the seventeenth century. I had turned to these accounts in the course of other researches, hoping to find in them descriptions of nobles' private experiences and emotions. Like other readers, I at first found the memorialists vexingly reticent about their inner lives. Yet I remained impressed at the flowering of this literature within an aristocratic milieu, and I became increasingly aware of the personal elements that it did contain. These texts seemed an important effort by both men and women (important partly because it involved both men and women) to see their lives as in some sense personal creations, full of surprising turns, inexplicable in terms of mere origins. Selfhood in the seventeenth century had apparently come to require narration and reflection, and there apparently existed an audience as well as authors for such stories; contemporaries avidly read and discussed the memorialists' self-depictions.

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