Conceiving the old regime : pronatalism and the politics of reproduction in early modern France / Leslie Tuttle.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

The politics of fertility in seventeenth-century France -- Making pronatalist law -- Gendering reproduction -- Domesticating new France -- Implementing pronatalist policy -- Inside the famille nombreuse -- Depopulation and the revival of pronatalism in the eighteenth century -- App. Provisions and implementation of the 1666 pronatalist edict.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.