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Adolescence and Migration: Nîmes, France, 1906

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Leslie Page Moch*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Arlington

Extract

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.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Social Science History Association 1981 

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Footnotes

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.

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