After discussing the usefulness and limitations of law and legal documents as a means of studying marriage and the family, the article reviews works by Glendon, Donzelot, Traer, Phillips, and others writing on aspects of inheritance; and closes with some suggestions for research into parent-child relationships and inheritance choices in eighteenth-century France.
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