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This work examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Departing from state-centered studies of marriage law, it draws on the methodologies of transnational history, cultural history, and the history of emotion to show that these unions were part of a broader pattern of the larger cultural love affair between the two societies.
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction Marriage: National Borders and Personal Spaces; Part I “Trading Titles for Treasure?”: Elite Marriages during the Nineteenth Century; Part II “Paris is Free—and So Are Its Kisses”: Wartime Marriages during the Twentieth Century; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index