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From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera's political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What's more, opera's creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre's larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre's distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.

Opera --- Political aspects --- History --- Ancien Regime. --- Foucault. --- France. --- early modern. --- opera. --- politics.

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Economic schools --- France --- --XVIIIe s., --- Ancien régime --- --Globalisation --- --Révolution française, --- Origines --- --Commerce --- --Économie --- --Economics --- History --- Commerce --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- XVIIIe s., 1701-1800 --- Globalisation --- Révolution française, 1789-1799 --- Économie --- Economics - France - History - 18th century --- France - Commerce - History - 18th century --- France - Economic policy - 18th century --- France - Economic conditions - 18th century --- Economics

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The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book, Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the works within this enormous corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum. Deploying political history, archival research, and textual analysis with eye-opening results, Douthwaite focuses on five major events between 1789 and 1794-first in newspapers, then in fiction-and shows how the symbolic stories generated by Louis XVI, Robespierre, the market women who stormed Versailles, and others were transformed into new tales with ongoing appeal. She uncovers a 1790 story of an automaton-builder named Frankénsteïn, links Baum to the suffrage campaign going back to 1789, and discovers a royalist anthem's power to undo Balzac's Père Goriot. Bringing to light the missing links between the ancien régime and modernity, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France is an ambitious account of a remarkable politico-literary moment and its aftermath.

Literature and revolutions --- France --- History --- french revolution, louis xvi, robespierre, versailles, rebellion, riots, modernity, suffrage, mary shelley, eta hoffmann, honore de balzac, dickens, gustave flaubert, l frank baum, politics, history, literature, nonfiction, frankenstein, automaton, royalist, anthem, ancien regime, womens march, labor, class, monarchy, republic, bastille, coronation, napoleon, inventor, science fiction, publishing, sensation, popular culture, 18th century.

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This book considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina. A comprehensive study of structures that rank among the most fascinating examples of intercultural exchange in the history of global empires.

Architecture, French colonial --- History --- 1600-1999 --- India --- Indochina --- Inde --- Indochine --- India. --- Indochina. --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Constructions. --- Asian. --- Associationism. --- Ayutthaya. --- Bangkok. --- Beaux-Arts. --- Belle Epoque. --- Burma. --- Cambodia. --- Carnatic Wars. --- Compagnie Indes. --- Ecole Superieure. --- Extreme-Orient. --- France. --- French. --- Haiphong. --- Hanoi. --- Jean-Baptiste Colbert. --- Laos. --- Louis XIV. --- Luang Prabang. --- Orientales. --- Paris. --- Phnom Penh. --- Saigon. --- Second. --- Siam. --- Thailand. --- Third Republic. --- Vietnam. --- ancien regime. --- colonialism. --- francaise. --- hybridity. --- metissage. --- museums. --- opera houses. --- theatres.

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Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.

Art --- art market --- Economic relations. Trade --- auctions --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Netherlands --- Paris --- Art dealers --- Painting --- Painting, Dutch --- Painting, Flemish --- Oil painting --- Painting, Primitive --- Paintings --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Marketing --- History --- Economic aspects --- Kunsthandel. --- Kunstmarkt. --- Malerei. --- Niederlande. --- Paris. --- Graphic arts --- Dealers (Retail trade) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Paris (France) --- Parijs (France) --- Pařiž (France) --- Parizh (France) --- Париж (France) --- Parigi (France) --- Bārīs (France) --- باريس (France) --- Lutetia (France) --- Paryż (France) --- Párizs (France) --- Parisioi (France) --- Parisi (France) --- Παρίσι (France) --- Parys (France) --- Parij (France) --- Parĩ (France) --- Bali (France) --- Pa-lí (France) --- 巴黎 (France) --- Horad Paryz︠h︡ (France) --- Горад Парыж (France) --- Paryz︠h︡ (France) --- Парыж (France) --- Парис (France) --- Parighji (France) --- Pariggi (France) --- Pariis (France) --- Париж ош (France) --- Parizh osh (France) --- Parizo (France) --- Páras (France) --- Paarys (France) --- Pâ-lì-sṳ (France) --- 파리 (France) --- Palika (France) --- פריז (France) --- Lutèce (France) --- Seine (France) --- Commerce --- City of Paris --- Art, Primitive --- kunsthandel --- revolutie, revolte, opstand --- oude meesters --- Ancien Régime --- Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre --- Poussin, Nicolas --- Rubens, Peter Paul --- 17de eeuw --- 18de eeuw --- 19de eeuw --- Parijs --- Nederlanden --- Italië --- Groot-Brittannië --- kunsthandel. --- revolutie, revolte, opstand. --- oude meesters. --- Ancien Régime. --- Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre. --- Poussin, Nicolas. --- Rubens, Peter Paul. --- 17de eeuw. --- 18de eeuw. --- 19de eeuw. --- Parijs. --- Nederlanden. --- Italië. --- Groot-Brittannië. --- auctions [sales events]