“I was Wife and Mother”: French Widows Present Themselves to the Ministry of Justice in the Early Nineteenth Century

Journal of Family History

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 202-210

  Troyansky, David G ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84992785499     PISSN: 03631990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/036319900002500205     Document Type: Article

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