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The French Château : life, style, tradition / Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery, Jean-Bernard Naudin ; preface by Philippine de Ganay.
LIBRA - Blank Collection DC33.7 .N5313 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicolay-Mazery, Christiane de.
- Naudin, Jean-Bernard, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Vie de château. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Social life and customs--20th century.
- France.
- Castles--France--Pictorial works.
- Castles.
- Upper class--France--Social life and customs.
- Upper class.
- Manners and customs.
- Upper class--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 237, [3] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1991.
- Language Note:
- Translation of: La vie de château by Jacqueline Taylor..
- Contents:
- Preface / Philippine de Ganay
- Introduction / Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
- Spring. A wedding at Groussay; The elephant of Jas Créma; Romantic Montgraham; Élisabeth's orangery; A childhood at Le Lude
- Summer. Invitation to Courances; The kitchen garden of Miromesnil; Haroué, a palace in Lorraine; A dinner party at Le Lude
- Autumn. Riding to hounds at Brissac; The carriages of Le Fresne ; Château Lafite: the Rothschild style; Hunting wild boar at Courances
- Winter. Haroué by the fireside; Époisses, a literary château; A Venetian carnival at Neuville; Christmas at Brécy; The Châteaux and their proprietors.
- Notes:
- On endpapers: Haroué, detail from the Pillement salon.
- 其他题名:Life℗ʺStyle℗ʺTradition.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0500236313 (cloth) :
- 9780500236314
- OCLC:
- 24840560
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