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The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris
Annik Pardailhe-Galabrun
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Description for The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris
Hardback. aeo An original and comprehensive study of the origins of intimacy and private life in early modern Europe. aeo Based on extensive research. aeo A fascinating account of life in seventeenth and eighteenth century Paris, the book is also accessible to the general reader. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home.
This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home.
On the basis of extensive and original research, Pardailhé-Galabrun describes early modern Paris as a city of contrasts: between buildings constructed as rental properties with ordinary, cramped facades, and the townhouses of the nobility, with carriage entrances, standing on lots alongside spacious courtyards and gardens. She has produced a vivid picture of the texture and warmth of life in the domestic ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745606934
SKU
V9780745606934
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99-1
About Annik Pardailhe-Galabrun
Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun worked closely at the CNRS with Professor François Crouzet and Professor Pierre Chaunu. Together with Victor-Lucien Tapie and Jean-Paul Le Flem, she wrote Retables Baroques de Bretagne (1970). She died in 1990.
Reviews for The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris
'The massive documentation, supplemented by some excellent imaginative writing, enables the author successfully to recreate the material texture of life in Paris.' Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham