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When the world spoke French / Marc Fumaroli ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.
Van Pelt Library PC3680.E85 F8613 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fumaroli, Marc.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- New York review books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Quand l'Europe parlait francais. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French language--Europe--History--18th century.
- French language.
- History.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Paris (France).
- Europe--Civilization--French influences.
- Europe.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 519 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- This book, by Fumaroli (French classical rhetoric and arts scholar) and translated by Howard, profiles Europeans and Americans during the 18th century who were drawn to the Enlightenment movement and French culture. During this time, France was the center of the Western world and the French language was a global language spoken by businessmen and intellectuals. The individuals profiled in this book all were French speakers and their stories illustrate how the French language, during the time, connected culture around the world. This book appeals to those studying French. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment : the Abbé Conti and the Comte de Caylus
- A French Alcibiades and his English Plato : Anthony Hamilton and the Comte de Gramont
- An English Cicero in the France of Louis XIV : Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
- The French Achilles of the Hapsburgs : Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan
- Lelio and Marivaux
- Louis XV's condottiere : Herman-Maurice of Saxony, Marshal of France
- Frederick II and Voltaire
- Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth, sister of Frederick II
- Francesco Algarotti and Frederick II
- Charlotte-Sophie d'Aldenburg, Countess of Bentinck : "The Sévigné of Germany"
- The Parisian model seen from London : Lord Chesterfield, his son's tutor
- The Marquise du Deffand : From Voltaire to Walpole
- Catherine the Great : Voltaire's eminent correspondent
- Ekaterina Romaniva Vorontsova, Princess of Dashkova : a Russian heroine at home and abroad
- The Abbé Galiani : the warmth of Naples and the wit of Paris
- Friedrich Melchior Grimm and the Strabismus of the Enlightenment
- William Beckford : the author of Vathek
- Goya, the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and William Beckford
- Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and "French Europe"
- Gustav III of Sweden : a Parisian from Stockholm
- A romance in "The cyclops's maw" : Hans Axel von Fersen and the "Austrian woman"
- Benjamin Franklin, Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen
- A United States ambassador to the rescue of Louis XVI : Gouveneur Morris
- A queen of England in partibus : Louise Maximilienne Caroline von Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany
- Charles-Joseph de Ligne : the last homme d'esprit
- An Enlightenment test site : Poland and its last king, Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski.
- Notes:
- Originally published as Quand l'Europe parlait français by Éditions de Fallois.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781590173756
- 1590173759
- OCLC:
- 657270919
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