Does anyone have any tips or websites about 19th century french etiquette??

Question

So, I'm in the play Love By The Bolt by Feydeaux and my theatre arts teacher told the cast (which includes myself) to look up French Etiquette for the early 1800's. I've looked but all I can find is stuff about when you eat. But, anyways, something extra is that we are high society in the play. If that changes anything.

Answer 1

Try either of the c 1990 film versions of Les liaisons dangereuses (I believe Forman's was entitled Valmont). At the social level you're looking at things hadn't changed all that much just because a revolution and an empire got in the way. For the precise period you might read Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir, though I think that is more middle class than you want.

Answer 2

http://home.earthlink.net/~gchristen/Etiquette.html
http://members.aol.com/EastLynne/Etiquette.htm

just look up 19th century etiquette and you'll find some sites. I found these really quick. All Etiquette was the same back then. There might have been a few rules changed here and there but mostly it was the same.