Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2004-1

No 51-1, 2004/1 - 256 pages

Sexuality and Marriage

Pages 7 to 35

Issues of Sexuality in Treaties on Marriage in France in the 16th and 17th Centuries

By Maurice Daumas

Social Careers and State Services

Pages 36 to 61

The Office of Secrétaire du Roi: A 17th-Century Secretary

By Nicolas Schapira

Pages 62 to 93

Academic Rectors in France from 1809 to 1940: The Evolution of Administrative Duties

By Jean-François Condette

Pages 94 to 116

Public Duties and Social Mobility: Career Progression in the Post Office, 1939 – 1974

By Marie Cartier

Arts and Artists in Society

Pages 117 to 128

Royal Regulations and Rules of the Game: La Comédie Française, Playwrights, and Intellectual Property in the Age of Enlightenment

By Gregory S. Brown

Pages 129 to 152

A Founding Myth of Contemporary Music: The “Scandal” Caused by the Creation of Edgar Varèse's Déserts in 1954

By Julien Mathieu

Readings

Pages 153 to 174

A Populist Turn in the 18th-Century English Historiography

By Renaud Morieux

Pages 175 to 244

Reviews

By Marie-Jo Bonnet