Le Ménagier de Paris is a late fourteenth-century (1392–1394) French conduct book intended for the education of the anonymous bourgeois Parisian author’s 15-year-old bride. The author/narrator, in teaching her how to maintain his estate, engages in moral, religious, and practical instruction before ending the text with a cookery consisting of over 380 recipes. The text exists in three extant fifteenth-century manuscripts and one sixteenth-century manuscript. The sincerity of the author/narrator’s portrayal of himself and his household is debatable and reading the text as a literary creation has been privileged. Le Ménagier de Paris provides an historical representation of an affluent Parisian household in the late fourteenth century and communicates the aspirations and values of the emerging urban bourgeoisie.