The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France
Author:   Oded Rabinovitch
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 November 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Oded Rabinovitch
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501729423


ISBN 10:   150172942
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 November 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Cast of Characters Introduction 1. Representing a Family of Letters: Images of Authorship (1650–1750) 2. Finance and Mobility: Pierre Ascendant (1600–1660) 3. The Perraults in the Countryside: Viry and Literary Sociability (1650–1680) 4. Failure in Finance and the Rise of Charles Perrault (1660–1680) 5. The Perraults and Versailles: Mediating Grandeur (1660–1700) 6. Claude Perrault and the Mechanics of Animals: Family and Scientific Institutions (1660–1690) Epilogue (1690–1730) Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Through the lens of a remarkable family in the age of Louis XIV, Rabinovitch examines literary and scientific activities as strategies for social and political advancement. His extensive research and subtle analyses offer fascinating new insight into the cultural efflorescence of the Grand Siecle. -- Ann Blair, Harvard University, author of <I>Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age</I> This engaging portrait shows how central the Perraults were to their cultural firmament. It takes us deep into Louis XIV's France at the highest levels, but it does so by breaking down such unwieldly categories like court and society, demonstrating the porous byways of intellectual production and cultural transmission. There is no book quite like this one. -- Robert A. Schneider, Indiana University Bloomington


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Oded Rabinovitch is lecturer in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University.

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