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Author Beasley, Faith Evelyn, author.

Title Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal : François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière, and enlightening conversations in seventeenth-century France / Faith E. Beasley.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
text file
PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Challenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century "orientalism", Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's "Great Century."
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Worldly Encounters: Communities and Conversation -- 2. Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking -- 3. Penser autrement: Fables, Philosophy, and Diversity -- 4. Indian Taste, A Taste for India -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Language In English.
Subject Bernier, François, 1620-1688.
Bernier, François, 1620-1688.
La Sablière, Marguerite de, 1640?-1693.
French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Orientalism -- France -- History -- 17th century.
Orientalism.
France.
History.
Salons -- France -- History -- 17th century.
Enlightenment -- France -- History.
France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Salons.
India -- Civilization -- Influence.
Enlightenment.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
India.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Civilization -- Influence.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Beasley, Faith Evelyn. Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018 9781487516123 (OCoLC)1027787120
ISBN 9781487516123 (electronic book)
1487516126 (electronic book)
9781487516130 (e-book)
1487516134 (e-book)
9781487502843 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
1487502842 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. 10.3138/9781487516123