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In Wharton's Age of Innocence, Newland Archer's mother accuses him of defending "the French Sunday" and later "grumbles at the English Sunday". What are these various Sundays and why were they frowned upon by Upper-Crust New York in the late 19th C?

by /u/lecreusetbae in /r/AskHistorians

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