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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"French Nobility"”.
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Representations De La Noblesse Dans Le Roman Francais (1789--1848)
The French nobility is considered as a class defeated by the bourgeoisie and irrelevant within the capitalist economy. This widespread view fails to explain the vivid presence of the nobles in the 19th century cultural production. A phenomenological analysis of five novels (L'emigre, by Senac de …
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Représentations de la noblesse dans le roman français (1789-1848)
The French nobility is considered as a class defeated by the bourgeoisie and irrelevant within the capitalist economy. This widespread view fails to explain the vivid presence of the nobles in the 19th century cultural production. A phenomenological analysis of five novels (L’émigré, by Sénac de …
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Motifs, l'art et les moyens, Les: la reussite des contes de fee de Perrault et des freres Grimm
Although many French and German authors have produced fairy tale collections, those of Charles Perrault and Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm are the best-selling non-religious literary works of all time in these two countries. In an attempt to understand the underlying reasons for the popularity of the …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… between the declining Victorian and Edwardian nobility that hides behind the curtains of its country mansions, unwilling to accept the loss of its former power and prestige and the young, modern aristocrats and members of the Bright Young People of the 1920s and ’30s, who enjoy the pleasures of …
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Cardinal de Retz, French Noble Exile, and Political Mobility in Seventeenth-Century Europe
… century, it was commonplace for rebellious French elites who opposed the ministerial monopoly of power held by Richelieu and Mazarin to flee abroad in defiance of the monarchy. In recent years, there has been renewed historical interest in the exile of some of these figures, including Louis …
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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… to the pattern books of the sixteenth century French illustrator, Jacques Androuct du Cerceau, whose imaginary 'maisons des champs' bear a strong resemblance to many Scottish country houses of the seventeenth century. Unlike Palladio and Scamozzi, whose treatises drew inspiration from the …