The Perraults : A Family of Letters in Early Modern France /

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"This book shows how the family strategy of the Perraults interacted with their literary and scientific projects, leading to a revision of our image of the major cultural institutions of the seventeenth century"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabinovitch, Oded (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Perreault family.
Perrault, P. > (Pierre), > 1611-1680.
Perrault, Claude, > 1613-1688.
Perrault, Charles, > 1628-1703.
Social networks.
Intellectual life.
Families.
Civilization.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
Reseaux sociaux > France > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Familles > France > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Social networks > France > History > 17th century.
Families > France > History > 17th century.
France.
France > Civilisation > 17e siecle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siecle.
France > Civilization > 17th century.
France > Intellectual life > 17th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Representing a family of letters : images of authorship (1650-1750)
  • Finance and mobility : Pierre ascendant (1600-1660)
  • The Perraults in the countryside : Viry and literary sociability (1650-1680)
  • Failure in finance and the rise of Charles Perrault (1660-1680)
  • The Perraults and Versailles : mediating grandeur (1660-1700)
  • Claude Perrault and the mechanics of animals : family and scientific institutions (1660-1690)
  • Epilogue (1690-1730).

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