Abstract
Although they were pervasive in noble society of early modern France, patron-client ties and networks have not been studied much until recently.' Historians have been slow to study kinship as well.2 Robert Muchembled observed that the notion of kinship, in first place, covers a multiform reality only broad outlines of which historians have as yet explored.3 Extended families, large households, and formal clientage have disappeared from modern western societies, making it more difficult to understand function of these relationships in early modern societies. Even characteristics of modern family and patron-client relationships have changed.4 We know that
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