I recently listened to a podcast on them from Stuff You Missed in History, I think that really went into that- how *great* it was for the women- they could choose the guy and got everything they needed to start the house like you said and whatnot. Hang on, let me find the list from when it was on tumblr
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Date: 2014-09-27 03:59 am (UTC)http://missedinhistory.tumblr.com/post/92450443155/in-the-1600s-france-had-a-problem-both-it-and