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Vaux and Versailles : the appropriations, erasures, and accidents that made modern France / Claire Goldstein.
Van Pelt Library DC801.V57 G65 2008
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LIBRA DC801.V57 G65 2008
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LIBRA DC801.V57 G65 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, Claire.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)--History.
- Château de Versailles (Versailles, France).
- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy, France)--History.
- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy, France).
- History.
- France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
- France.
- France--Civilization--18th century.
- Civilization.
- France--Civilization--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 270 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Unearthing the Vaux Aesthetic 11
- French Identity and Haunted Versailles 19
- 1 Stylish Bores: Moliere's Facheux at Vaux and Versailles 31
- Vaux-le-Vicomte 34
- The Vaux Fete / La Fontaine 34
- Moliere's Comedy at Vaux 40
- Versailles 44
- Fetes on Paper 44
- Louis XIV, Master of the Dance 47
- A Fete to Inaugurate Versailles 49
- First Intermezzo: Villedieu's Favory and the Risks of Absolutist Sentimentality 53
- 2 Interwoven Narratives: Literature and Tapestries from Vaux to Versailles 65
- Vaux-le-Vicomte 68
- Maincy 69
- Making Tapestries to Order 71
- Versailles 78
- Transferred Text(ile)s 78
- Changes in Patronage, or Building a New Society with Old Parts 84
- La Fontaine's Memorial Threads 89
- Second Intermezzo: The King in Tapestries: Felibien's Elements and Saisons 99
- Disappearing Artists 108
- 3 Signifying Spaces: Literary Visits to Vaux and Versailles 113
- How to Erase an Enchanted Palace 113
- A Tale of Two Gardens 116
- Felibien's Literary Promenades for a Minister and a King 122
- The Origine de la Peinture and Versailles' Problem of Origins 130
- La Fontaine's Two Promenades 132
- Le Songe de Vaux and Psyche: Textual Connections 133
- Changing Spaces, Changing Subjects 135
- Scudery's Castles: Commodite Versus Grandeur 138
- ... tant il est vrai qu'on aime a decouvrir soi-meme les choses 140
- Royal Promenades 147
- Poetic Monuments 147
- The King built Versailles 150
- Third Intermezzo: Guidebooks: Finding One's Way at Versailles 155
- Versailles Speaking (in Too Many Voices) 168
- 4 Luxury's Work 175
- Pipes and Grottos 178
- Labor on Display 180
- Celebrating Mercantile Trade 182
- Grotto as Theory of Kingship 186
- Royal Parthenogenesis 193
- Metamorphosizing Orange Trees 200
- Parnasse Interrupted 204
- Fourth Intermezzo: Horticultural Magic 207
- The Gardener as Hero 209
- New Seasons, New Suns 212
- Moving Earth 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812240580
- 0812240588
- OCLC:
- 154800561
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