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Jonny Bunning: Post-Revolutionary Matchmaking, 7 May 2026

Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Post-Revolutionary France 
by Andrea Mansker.
Cornell, 282 pp., £43, December 2024, 978 1 5017 7806 3Show More
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“... Some historians might search for solid truths behind these potentially suspect narrations, but Andrea Mansker takes them as objects of study in their own right. Her book focuses on two commercial marriage brokers, Villiaume and his starchier successor Charles de Foy. The two differed in demeanour, strategy and approach, each seeming to personify his ...”

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