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Paris in the age of absolutism : an essay
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Paris in the age of absolutism : an essay

Author: Orest A Ranum
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : English : Rev. and expanded edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Orest A Ranum
ISBN: 0271022213 9780271022215
OCLC Number: 50080002
Description: 403 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents: PART I. THE MEDIEVAL BURDEN -- A traveler's view in 1600 -- An explosive political climate -- The necessity of a capital -- PART II. FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNITY -- Early Bourbon absolutism -- The birth of modern Paris -- The neighborhood builders -- The first women writers -- PART III. MEDIEVAL REVIVAL -- A generation of saints -- The last heroes -- The corporate Parisians -- PART IV. URBAN ABSOLUTISM: THE FLIGHT FROM MODERNITY -- The Frondeurs -- A generation of Tartuffes -- The new Rome.
Responsibility: Orest Ranum.

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