The French Worker - Living Conditions

Click on any link below to learn more about the French worker of the 18th & 19th Centuries

Click on any of the titles below to read the full-length essay on the topic of Living Conditions of Workers in Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century France

"Food in France" - Richard Tabler "Housing Conditions of French Workers" - Jonathan Ross

"Family Structure and Relations" - Ashley Chilton "Sickness and Death" - Jessie Phelps

"The French Worker in the Provinces" - Stuart Rice "Moving to Paris" - Jennifer Frederick

"Nineteenth Century Working Class Conditions in France: Clothing & Its Significance" - Erica Cefalo

A typical boarding house in France, with the working classes occupying the top floors

All essays copyright students of History 541, University of Kentucky 2002

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