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  • The Versailles Effect

    Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine

    Modifié par Mark Ledbury, Robert Wellington ...
    Collections series Material Culture of Art and Design
    The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires, and ruptures. The splendour of the Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797)

    Theatre, Opera and Art

    Modifié par David Charlton, Mark Ledbury ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. If Sedaine speaks today to literary history, theatre history and opera studies, it is because he possessed a multivalent vision, one which accounts for both his past neglect and is present rediscovery. Like many others, he believed that the established, ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Fictions of Art History

    par Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury, Ralph Lieberman, Maria H. Loh, Alexander Nemerov, Joanna Scott, Cole Swensen, Marianna Torgovnick, Caroline Vout, Marina Warner ...
    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Paris

    The Biography of a City

    par Colin Jones ...
    From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $18.99 CAD Maintenant $15.99 CAD

  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    par Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Streets of Paris

    A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

    par Susan Cahill, Marion Ranoux ...
    From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years.For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters—from medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Paris

    par Robert Cole ...
    Paris, in many people’s view, is the epitome of the perfect city – beautiful, romantic and imbued with vitality and culture. It is a wonderful place to visit and to live. A ‘pride of place’ mentality has characterised Parisians for centuries: ‘To be in Paris, is to be’ enthused an anonymous correspondent as early as 1323. Packed with fact, anecdote and insight, ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • King of the World

    The Life of Louis XIV

    par Philip Mansel ...
    Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag MontefioreLouis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    par Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... En savoir plus

    $159.39 CAD

  • An Infinite History

    The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries

    par Emma Rothschild ...
    An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

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  • The Invention of Paris

    A History in Footsteps

    par Eric Hazan ...
    Traduit par David Fernbach ...
    The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur’s ear for a story with a historian’s command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable ... En savoir plus

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  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    par Jacob Soll ...
    Collections series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD