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This article reveals the hidden practical realities of getting things done on a budget, whilst keeping up with the Joneses – or the Duponts – in Dieppe at the end of the eighteenth century. It highlights the range and versatility of the networks upon which Catherine de Saint-Pierre, sister of writer Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, called as a means of saving money.
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It fleshes out the life of a woman in provincial France in the late 18th century and provides an insider's guide to daily life at the time.
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This page is a summary of: Unblocking Enlightenment Loos, Bernardin's Boxer Shorts and Other Day-to-Day Practicalities in Eighteenth-Century Normandy: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Catherine de Saint-Pierre's Networks, Nottingham French Studies, July 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/nfs.2015.0120.
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