IDENTITY
Du prêtre, de la femme et de la famille
Other Nonfiction
Work Summary
A polemical social study attacking clerical intrusion into marriage and family life, particularly the influence of the priest over women. Michelet argues for the emotional and moral independence of the household from ecclesiastical authority and connects family relations with wider questions of religion and society.
Evidence Summary
He says books like it are full of reality; a later family recollection says he was wildly enthusiastic about Michelet's theory.
Directly documented intellectual and social response.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Jules Michelet
Work
Du prêtre, de la femme et de la famille
Years / Period
23 Dec 1881
Van Gogh Relation
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EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
23 Dec 1881 — Letter 193
Read · Read / strongly reacted
Van Gogh says he recently read the work (calling it La femme, la religion et le prêtre).
Response: He says books like it are full of reality; a later family recollection says he was wildly enthusiastic about Michelet's theory.
Connection: Directly documented intellectual and social response.
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