Based on her earlier work on the city of Rheims in Champagne, France—a Family Reconstitution study covering all social scales—the article proposes a new comprehensive classification of reconstructed female life courses from the author’s existing and refreshed nominative database (1668–1802). This fresh scrutiny of digital files will allow series of qualitative and quantitative approaches, making hopefully preindustrial urban women at last visible along their individual life-trajectory. Thanks to rich archival sources, socio-demographic trends are better known, including a general early shift to contraceptive behaviour in pre-1789 Rheims. At the end of the Ancien Régime, there was growing individual female labour migration to this major town of Western Europe. It was attracted by domestic service and the textile sector. The sex ratio became so unbalanced that many women remained single, and only a few widows remarried. Numerous women managed their living without a husband, through the many economic and sanitary crises which characterised the period.

基于她在法国香槟的Rheims市的较早工作（一项涵盖所有社会规模的家庭重建研究），文章根据作者现有的和刷新的提名数据库（1668–1802）提出了重构的女性生活课程的新综合分类。对数字文件的这种全新审查将允许采取一系列定性和定量方法，从而有望使工业化前的城市女性最终在其个人生活轨迹上可见。得益于丰富的档案资料，人们更加了解了社会人口趋势，包括在1789年以前的Rheims地区普遍早期转向避孕行为。在AncienRégime结束时，越来越多的女性劳动力向西欧这个主要城镇迁移。它被家庭服务和纺织部门所吸引。性别比例变得如此不平衡，以至于许多妇女仍然单身，只有少数寡妇再婚。通过这一时期的许多经济和卫生危机，许多妇女在没有丈夫的情况下生活。