Beyond adoption: Orphans and family strategies in pre-industrial France
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
There was no legal adoption of under-age children in France before 1923. After the collapse Roman Empire customs western European societies, including France, sought to find a new family framework for orphaned and tried carefully secure transmission assets such inherited. Relatives had duties towards children, turn work serve their substitute parents obey them. A child “person” Christian society as soon he or she baptized, were charge. But an orphan semi-orphan controlled by council his her future submitted familial debate neighbors relatives, often front public judicial authorities. French 1789 Revolution devised numerous ways meeting needs many orphans created prevailing high mortality rate, maternal paternal kinship expressed itself diverse liv...
The History of the Family