Love in the Eighteenth Century
Author : Edmond de Goncourt
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Eighteenth century
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Author : Edmond de Goncourt
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Eighteenth century
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Georges Grappe
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1881
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Félix Gaiffe
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1910
Category : French drama
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Author : Claude Dulong
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1969
Category : France
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Author : Lenard R. Berlanstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674020812
Famous and seductive, female stage performers haunted French public life in the century before and after the Revolution. This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. From the moment they became an unofficial caste of mistresses to France's elite during the reign of Louis XIV, their image fluctuated between emasculating men and delighting them. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, society columns, theater criticism, government reports, autobiographies, public rituals, and a huge corpus of fiction, Lenard Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next. Tolerated when civil society functioned and demonized when it faltered, they finally passed from notoriety to celebrity with the stabilization of parliamentary life after 1880. Only then could female fans admire them openly, and could the state officially recognize their contributions to national life. Daughters of Eve is a provocative look at how a culture creates social perceptions and reshuffles collective identities in response to political change.
Author : Benedetta Craveri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590172148
Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.
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Publisher : Odile Jacob
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
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ISBN : 2738177042