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100 1 _aDelorme, Marie,
_d1836-1905
245 1 4 _aUne maison bien tenue
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-29
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _a"Une maison bien tenue : Conseils aux jeunes maîtresses de maison" by Marie Delorme is a household management guide written in the early 20th century. Aimed at young mistresses of the house, it offers practical and moral guidance for keeping a clean, orderly, and welcoming home, from daily routines and hygiene to managing servants, the salon, and the table. The work blends exact instructions with the ideal of the “strong woman,” urging capable, cheerful stewardship of family life. The opening of this guide invokes the biblical “femme forte” to argue that domestic competence is both noble and necessary, then addresses young women’s doubts and calls them to share their mothers’ burdens and learn by doing. It insists on steady, everyday order rather than occasional upheavals; emphasizes hygiene, fresh air, and firm but fair training of servants; and warns against fussy nagging that kills household peace. Detailed morning routines follow—airing rooms, brushing clothes, making beds properly—and young women are urged to “do their own room” as physical and moral discipline. A historical sketch of the salon leads to a critique of France’s unused show-salons, recommending instead a lived-in family parlour, then gives precise methods for cleaning salons, dusting furniture and bibelots, caring for plants, and preparing fireplaces. The narrative turns to the table: keeping odors at bay, organizing buffet and “office,” buying durable equipment, and laying a simple, correct cover. It closes this opening section with service etiquette in family meals—when to have servants present, who carves, how to serve children, clearing before dessert, coffee and liqueurs in the salon—and the rule to wash up and restore order promptly. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Armand Colin, 1901
653 _aHousekeeping -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5531380d
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76416
999 _c117141
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