The Ceremonial City : : Toulouse Observed, 1738-1780 / / Robert A. Schneider.

From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and misery, Robert Schneider explores how Toulous...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1996]
©1995
Year of Publication:1996
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.) :; 4 tables 1 fig. 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1. THE OBSERVER AND HIS DIARY
  • CHAPTER 2. THE CITY
  • CHAPTER 3. JUSTICE IN THE STREETS
  • CHAPTER 4. PUBLIC DEVOTIONS
  • CHAPTER 5. POLITICAL FESTIVITIES
  • CONCLUSION. THINKING ABOUT THE CEREMONIAL CITY
  • INDEX