A Love Story

Romance  

• Romanticism
  • Literature
  • Hugo: The Romantic
  • Hugo's Works
• Victor Hugo:PrivateLife
  • Adele
  • Letters to Adele
  • Juliette Drouet
  • Love Letters to Hugo
• Hugo: Life and Art
  • Fiction: Marius and Cosette
  • Real Life: Bourgeois Courtship
  • Political Parallel

Marriage

• Education of Females
  • Romantic Love?
  • Role of Literature
  • Anticipation
    
• Traditional View
  
• Behind the Vows
  • Impoverished Match
  • Contracting a Marriage
  • Summary of Articles
  • Orginal Contract
    
• Murderess Wives
  • Marie Fortunee
  • Euphemie Verges

Real Life

• Laws
  • Tribunal
  • Assemblee
  • Napoleon
  • Abuse
• Les Mis
• Cousin Bette
• Examples 

Within the walls of Bourgeois society its members were preoccupied with lust, beauty, desire, and used their money as a shield from the world. In her imagination, the proper maiden paraded around the French streets, her umbrella protecting her face and her crisp dress, with a dashing man in a top hat at her arm. After their courtship, the proper maiden and dashing man got married and lived healthy, happy lives. Despite the glamourous dreams of the Bourgeoisie, many members suffered harsh realities. Both the husband and the wife were able to petition for a divorce...until Napoleon came into power in 1803 and abolished it. Then the wives had to find an alternative to divorce, and some of them did--murder.

Fourberies De Femmes, Gavarni, 19th C.

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