Arlette Farge
French historian specializing in 18th-century social history and archival research; known for studies of the urban poor and marginal groups and for works such as Le goût de l'archive.
Books
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1. The Vanishing Children Of Paris
An evocative microhistory that excavates the lives of the poor in 18th-century Paris through court records, police reports and parish registers, tracing the fate of abandoned and vanished children and the women connected to them; by reading archival fragments closely, the book reconstructs intimate scenes of poverty, maternal distress, clandestine births, institutional cruelty and the ordinary brutality of urban governance, giving voice to marginalized actors while revealing how legal, social and moral structures shaped — and often erased — their lives.