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Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France Montana authors It truly was terrifying andAuthor Contributor(s): Gager, Kristin Elizabeth Publisher: Princeton University Press Date: 07 14 2014 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the