The fifth case (Mme Mandonnet) the wife did not want to have sex with the husband after the birth of the first child he beat her ferociously he was much older and she married to him by parents the parents backed her, she left and husband driven to tell this humiliating reality in the first person in order to argue he was not so bad. (There's a parallel with Trollope's which shows up Trollope's soft-peddling of dangerous situation as Emilius is a killer too, but we are not encouraged to sympathize with Lady Eustace). The fourth case (Berges) shows a man who married a woman solely for her money and when she ran out or refused her, beat her mercilessly it looks to me like he meant to kill her in order to get control over her money he humiliated her by keeping his mistress in the house and taking his mistress to public occasions. I summarize the three cases you can read about in Part Two here. for brief description of three cases of Part One and detailed description of three more cases La Divorce, Pierre Etienne Lescuerer - the underlying them of Trouille's book is the necessity of liberal divorce laws and equality of respect between the partners in a marriageįor Trouille's history of the era, and summary description of whole book and three court cases: see Part one It's on the fiction that deal with wife abuse about which I've written elsewhere, Sade and his La Marquise de Gange and Plessix-Gray's Chez Sade Genlis's Histoire de la Duchess de C************ and Retif and Agnes de Bretonne's Ingenue Saxancour), here's I'll concentrate on Trouille's perspective on these works. As promised, here is the third of four blogs on Mary Trouille's book.

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