The Flower Girl The Seamstress The Milliner The Laundress The Hairdresser The Chambermaid ians of the bourgeois woman's virtue. The ideal of the motherly and chaste housewife was 69. hemmed in by the prostitute: if she wavered from the conjugal path, she became one; but by "Little Girls' living up to the ideal, she sent her husband into the prostitute's bed. As we have already seen, Jobs," 1890, Parisian reglementation provided an institutionalized sanction of the male double standard and Cabinet des thereby established the sexual vulnerability of lower-class women. Estampes, In spite of the ideological dominion of the bourgeois family model in French society during Bibliotheque the second half of the nineteenth century, many French women were nonetheless in the labor Nationale, force. In 1866, 25 percent of French women worked outside the home; by 1896, the proportion Paris.