OEuvres de M. de Florian
Author : Florian
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1805
Category : French literature
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Author : Florian
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1805
Category : French literature
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Author : Florian
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1805
Category : French literature
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Author : James Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 1789
Category : Book catalogs
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Author : Louise E. Robbins
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2003-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 080187677X
This lively history “adds a new dimension to our understanding of 18th-century France” by exploring the Parisian fashion of importing exotic animals (American Historical Review). In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta’s Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In the streets of the city, one could observe performing elephants and a fighting polar bear. Those looking for unusual pets could purchase parrots, flying squirrels, and capuchin monkeys. The royal menagerie at Versailles displayed lions, cranes, an elephant, a rhinoceros, and a zebra, which in 1760 became a major court attraction. For Enlightenment-era Parisians, exotic animals piqued scientific curiosity and conveyed social status. Their variety and accessibility were a boon for naturalists like Buffon, author of Histoire naturelle. Louis XVI use his menagerie to demonstrate his power, while critics saw his caged animals as metaphors of slavery and oppression. In her engaging account, Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France’s obsession with exotic fauna, from the animals’ transportation and care to the inner workings of the oiseleurs’ (birdsellers’) guild. Based on wide-ranging research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots offers a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism.
Author : Scott and O'Shaughnessy
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
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Author :
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1792
Category :
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Author : Katherine Astbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351556622
During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma theory as a way of exploring the apparent contradiction between the proliferation of non-political literary texts and the events of the Revolution. Through the narratives of established bestselling literary figures of the Ancien Regime (primarily Marmontel, Madame de Genlis and Florian), and the early works of first generation Romantics Madame de Stael and Chateaubriand, she traces how the Revolution shapes their writing, providing an intriguing new angle on cultural production of the 1790s.Katherine Astbury is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.
Author : British Library
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
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Author : ARMOUR AND RAMSAY.
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : Princeton University. Library
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Classified catalogs
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