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In Conceiving the Old Regime, Leslie Tuttle clearly demonstrates how issues of population growth, fertility, child mortality, and pronatalism permeated French culture intermittently for over a century since 1666. Meticulously researched and fluidly written, this book is engaging and a pleasure to read. Tuttle goes beyond the work of other historians in contributing innovative and important arguments about state building and in elucidating complex connections between gender and the state. Conceiving the Old Regime makes a significant contribution to family history and state building in early modern France by opening a new window that allows us to see the interplay between individuals, communities, and the state. Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University

<br> In Conceiving the Old Regime, Leslie Tuttle clearly demonstrates how issues of population growth, fertility, child mortality, and pronatalism permeated French culture intermittently for over a century since 1666. Meticulously researched and fluidly written, this book is engaging and a pleasure to read. Tuttle goes beyond the work of other historians in contributing innovative and important arguments about state building and in elucidating complex connections between gender and the state. Conceiving the Old Regime makes a significant contribution to family history and state building in early modern France by opening a new window that allows us to see the interplay between individuals, communities, and the state. -Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University <br><p><br> Leslie Tuttle's innovative study of Early Modern France offers new insights into the ways the state of France and French families negotiated mutual public benefits. It is impeccable researched, well organized, conceptually astute, tightly argued, and beautifully written. A tour de force, it untangles a historical puzzle through arguments based on the law stories of men and women living in society, along with the bureaucratic entanglements of state officials wed to a pro-natalist policy. -Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa <br><p><br> In Conceiving the Old Regime, Leslie Tuttle uses the 1666 Edict on Marriage to illuminate a century of legislation on marriage by the state (in competition with the church), a long debate over reproduction and population size, and Louis XIV's efforts to persuade his subjects to align their interests with his. The book will have a major impact on understandings of the relationship between family and political development: on current questions about statebuilding in the age of absolutism, the paradoxical disintegration of the French monarchy as it intensified its charitable interventions in its subjects' lives during the final two decades preceding the Revolution, and the c

<br> In Conceiving the Old Regime, Leslie Tuttle clearly demonstrates how issues of population growth, fertility, child mortality, and pronatalism permeated French culture intermittently for over a century since 1666. Meticulously researched and fluidly written, this book is engaging and a pleasure to read. Tuttle goes beyond the work of other historians in contributing innovative and important arguments about state building and in elucidating complex connections between gender and the state. Conceiving the Old Regime makes a significant contribution to family history and state building in early modern France by opening a new window that allows us to see the interplay between individuals, communities, and the state. -Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University <br> Leslie Tuttle's innovative study of Early Modern France offers new insights into the ways the state of France and French families negotiated mutual public benefits. It is impeccable researched, well organized, conceptuall

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Leslie Tuttle is Assistant Professor of History, University of Kansas

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