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Language: en
Pages: 225
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-30 - Publisher: Yale University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 418
Pages: 418
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press
Language: en
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Pages: 287
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as "bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they were said to have neither kin nor kin