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Clarendon Press, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Signs of wear on the cover. Soiling on the side. Damaged dust jacket. Edition 1990. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.
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Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV Hardcover - 1990
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- Title Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV
- Author Hall, Hugh Gaston
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date 1990-07
- ISBN 9780198151579
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-Clarendon Press, 1990-. First edition. ix+399 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Very good in dustjacket. Jean Desmarets was a late Renaissance "universal man": first Chancellor and founder-member of the Adademie-francaise, last jester of the French royal court and star performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet, architect, inventor and mystic. He was also the first man to publicise the notion of "a century of Louis XIV". Hugh Gaston Hall's book examines that notion by looking fresh at Desmarets' vigorous career and relating the century of Louis XIV to its origins in the reign of Louis XIII. It questions historical misconceptions about Cardinal Richelieu's cultural policies and demonstrates the importance for the Court ballet of his patronage. Giovanni Bernini's illusionist sets and lighting effects for the Grand Salle, which later became Moliere's theatre and the Opera, are discussed here in English for the first time. Desmarets' many high-level court offices, his family connections, and…
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Hardback. New. Jean Desmarets was a late Renaissance universal man. He was a founder-member of the Academie-francaise, a novelist, playwright, poet, and architect. This book reassesses his career in the context of Richelieu's cultural policies and relates the notion of a 'century of Louis XIV' to its origins in the reign of Louis XIII.
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