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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>List of Illustrations</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>ix</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xiii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Introduction The Allure of Spectacle and the Prerogative of Pleasure</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xv</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>1 Muses of Pleasure</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Louis XIV's Early Court Ballet, 1651-1660</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>2 Muses of Memory</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>41</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Louis XIV's Late Court Ballet, 1661��1669</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>3 Muses of Satire</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>84</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Le bourgeois gentilhomme & the Utopia of Spectacle</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>4 Tragic Interlude</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>120</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Reversals at the Paris Op��ra, 1671-1697</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>5 Sappho, Cythera & the Triumph of Love</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>161</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Ballet at the Paris Op��ra, 1700-1723</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>6 Carnival, Commedia dell'arte & the Triumph of Folly</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>191</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Ballet at the Paris Op��ra, 1699-1718</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>7 Watteau's Cythera, the Opera-Ballet & the Staging of Pleasure</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>222</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>253</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>281</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority."--Jacket

The triumph of pleasure : Louis XIV & the politics of spectacle