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Uncertain Interiors: Bourgeois Homes and Brothels Under the Third Republic

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Uncertain Interiors: Bourgeois Homes and Brothels Under the Third Republic

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Fleury, Sonia

By 1890, the French government under the Third Republic seemed on the brink of political and social disaster. Anarchists were planting bombs in Parisian cafes, the birthrate was declining, and Germany-who had won a war against France in 1870-was surpassing her economically. In this time of political and social anxiety, women became increasingly important in the rhetoric of the Third Republic, as the regime determined to actively support the decorative arts in an effort to revive France as the world's producer of fine feminine luxury goods. This rhetoric relied on a clear social and physical separation between the bourgeois woman (purveyor of the home and mother of France's future citizens) and the prostitute (society's necessary receptacle for the dangerous male lust that found no place in the bourgeois home).

2008

Berkeley Undergraduate Journal

21/1

Fleury, Sonia

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