Marie-Antoinette’s Legacy : : The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867 / / Susan Taylor-Leduc.

Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems. Four French consorts—queen Mar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Spatial Legacies
  • Prologue: Consorts and Fashionistas
  • 1 A Gambling Queen: Marie-Antoinette’s Gamescapes (1775–1789)
  • 2 Revolutionary Surprises (1789–1804)
  • 3 A Créole Empress: Joséphine at Malmaison (1799–1810)
  • 4 The Imperial Picturesque: Napoléon, Joséphine, and Marie-Louise (1810–1814)
  • 5 Empress Eugénie: Picturesque Patrimony at the Universal Exposition of 1867
  • Epilogue
  • Index