Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal : : François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France / / Faith E. Beasley.
Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France’s "Great Century" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and philosophe...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations
- Introduction
- 1. Worldly Encounters: Communities and Conversation
- 2. Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking
- 3. Penser autrement: Fables, Philosophy, and Diversity
- 4. Indian Taste, A Taste for India
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index