Suicide in Eighteenth-Century France
| By: | Jeffrey Merrick |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Print ISBN: | 9781036448516 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781036448523 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2025 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Police records from 18th-century Paris lay bare the intimate tragedies behind hundreds of suicides. Through suicide notes and witness accounts, these dossiers reveal not only private despair but a society's shifting view of self-destruction—from a crime to a sign of insanity.