Au seuil de l’intimité conjugale : la chambre nuptiale à la Belle Époque

In nineteenth-century France, marriage had to be consummated on the wedding night. This entry into legitimate sexuality was spatially circumscribed to a particular place, designated by the generic expression of the bridal chamber. The first sexual act of the marital relationship was supposed to take...

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Autor principal:	Aïcha Salmon
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Publicado:	Association Mnémosyne 2021
Materias:	bridal chamber marriage intimacy France 19th century Women. Feminism HQ1101-2030.7 Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HN1-995
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bbe0e43355b646bc9a0c04e227a602722021-12-02T10:12:22ZAu seuil de l’intimité conjugale : la chambre nuptiale à la Belle Époque2102-5886https://doaj.org/article/bbe0e43355b646bc9a0c04e227a602722021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/6065https://doaj.org/toc/2102-5886In nineteenth-century France, marriage had to be consummated on the wedding night. This entry into legitimate sexuality was spatially circumscribed to a particular place, designated by the generic expression of the bridal chamber. The first sexual act of the marital relationship was supposed to take place there: this location was thus decisive in the construction of the bonds between husband and wife. It largely determined the way in which the bridal chamber and the bed of the newlyweds were thought of, conceived, prepared, and occupied by them. This essay focuses on the representations of the bridal chamber, but also on the concrete experiences of the spouses who spend their first night there, which both reveal that the difference between the sexes played a major role. in the imagination and in practice. It presents the main characteristics of the bridal chamber in terms of its location, function and decoration (I), then it looks at the tensions that arise when the nuptial chamber was supposed to give more privacy to spouses and become more closed to outsiders (II).Aïcha SalmonAssociation Mnémosynearticlebridal chamber marriageintimacyFrance19th centuryWomen. FeminismHQ1101-2030.7Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reformHN1-995FRGenre & Histoire, Vol 27 (2021)
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description	In nineteenth-century France, marriage had to be consummated on the wedding night. This entry into legitimate sexuality was spatially circumscribed to a particular place, designated by the generic expression of the bridal chamber. The first sexual act of the marital relationship was supposed to take place there: this location was thus decisive in the construction of the bonds between husband and wife. It largely determined the way in which the bridal chamber and the bed of the newlyweds were thought of, conceived, prepared, and occupied by them. This essay focuses on the representations of the bridal chamber, but also on the concrete experiences of the spouses who spend their first night there, which both reveal that the difference between the sexes played a major role. in the imagination and in practice. It presents the main characteristics of the bridal chamber in terms of its location, function and decoration (I), then it looks at the tensions that arise when the nuptial chamber was supposed to give more privacy to spouses and become more closed to outsiders (II).
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Au seuil de l’intimité conjugale : la chambre nuptiale à la Belle Époque

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