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Citation

Porret M. Gesnerus 1992; 49(Pt 3-4): 351-369.

Vernacular Title

La "mort de la belle jeunesse" ou le suicide juvenile a Geneve au XVIIIe siecle.

Affiliation

Département d'histoire générale, Université de Genève.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Swiss Society of the History of Medicine and Sciences, Publisher Verlag Sauerländer)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1478488

Abstract

Whether it is the unhappy ending of family grief, the only solution to an unrequited love or due to some pathological behaviour, juvenile suicide horrifies the community of the Ancien Régime, which tends to interpret it as an "illness of the soul" characteristic of a youth that combines bodily vitality with moral frailty, but whose role would be nonetheless to ensure the morrows of mankind. Juvenile suicide underlines the flaws of social solidarity in the tightly knit community of the Ancien Régime, and it deepens the social resentment against willful death which, since 1774, has often been attributed to the harmful influence of the kind of "philosophy" or free will advocated by Goethe's unfortunate Werther.


Language: fr

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