Performing, flirting and intercourse: courtship in 18th-century France

Performing, flirting and intercourse: courtship in 18th-century France Detail from Le Faux Pas (c1716-18) by Antoine Watteau. Courtesy the Louvre, Paris is John E Green Regents Professor of History and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University of Texas at Austin. This woman is the writer for the Practice of Patriarchy (1998), Family Business (2009) and […][...]