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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
At eighteen, Marius Pouzergue was a student at the regional secondary school in the Southern French city of Nîmes. He lived near the lycée with his family in a solid bourgeois neighborhood. The small but prosperous Pouzergue household included Marius’s father, his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister Lucie, and a cook. Marius’s father was a court lawyer. Nineteen-year-old Adèle Lafont, like Marius, lived with her family. The Lafonts resided on the fashionable Boulevard Victor Hugo, where Monsieur Lafont owned a jewelry establishment. A domestic servant lived with Adèle, her parents, her brother aged 16, and her sister aged 26.
An earlier version of this article was presented at the 1978 annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Atlanta, Georgia. I am grateful to John Knodel, Michael Moch, Elizabeth Fleck, and Louise Tilly for comments on the original draft and to the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for its support.