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Iran and a French Empire of Trade examines the understudied topic of Franco-Persian relations in the long eighteenth century to highlight how rising tensions among Eurasian empires …
Malgré toutes les recherches consacrées aux Lumières françaises, il reste bien des trésors à découvrir, surtout si l’on pousse la prospection dans les terrains dédaignés (ou …
This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The …
Scholarly understanding of the notion of public opinion in France has suffered, and suffers still, from some serious misconceptions. Chief of these is the belief that its …
In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the remains of the past dominated the …
Si l’éducation, thème phare du XVIIIe siècle, a fait l’objet d’importantes études historiques et littéraires, de nombreux textes d’auteurs féminins sont restés dans l’ombre. …
By convention, the likely end of the career of an eighteenth-century actress was marriage, the convent or the gutter. Jeanne Quinault used her talents to shape a most …
Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are not available for purchase. L’importance de la référence antique dans la culture, les arts et les lettres, les débats …
European culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a radical redefinition of ‘humanity’ and its place in the environment, together with a new understanding of …
Violence was an inescapable part of people’s daily lives in eighteenth-century France. The Revolution in general and the Terror in particular were marked by intense outbursts of …