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3. Sarah Hanley, ‘Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France’, French Historical Studies, 16 (1989) pp. 4–27, especially pp. 7–9;
4. Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (1976) p. 126.
5. Mack P. Holt, ‘Patterns of Clientele and Economic Opportunity at Court During the Wars of Religion; The Household of François, Duke of Anjou’, French Historical Studies, 13 (1984) p. 315.