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Versailles meets the Taj Mahal : François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière, and enlightening conversations in seventeenth-century France /

"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" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and...

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Main Authors: Beasley, Faith Evelyn
Published: University of Toronto Press,
Publisher Address: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Bernier, François, > 1620-1688
La Sablière, Marguerite de, > 1640?-1693
1600-1699
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism
Orientalism > France > History > 17th century
Salons > France > History > 17th century
Enlightenment > France
Littérature française > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique
Orientalisme > France > Histoire > 17e siècle
Salons littéraires > France > Histoire > 17e siècle
Siècle des Lumières > France
Civilization > Indic influences
Civilization > Influence
Enlightenment
French literature
Intellectual life
Orientalism
Salons
18.25 French literature
France > Intellectual life > 17th century
India > Civilization > Influence
France > Civilization > Indic influences
France > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle
Inde > Civilisation > Influence
France > Civilisation > Influence de l'Inde
France
India
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History
Summary: "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" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher François Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Bernier's travels and inscribed in his influential texts produced in collaboration with La Sablière's salon. The literary works, correspondences, and philosophical texts produced by the members of this eclectic salon b
Item Description: Donation.
Carrier Form: xiii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-337) and index.
ISBN: 9781487502843
1487502842
Index Number: PQ245
CLC: I565.063
Call Number: WF/I565.063/B368
Contents: Introduction -- Worldly Encounters : Communities and Conversation. "Un esprit extraordinaire" -- Food for Conversation: Bernier's Travels -- Conversing with/about Colbert -- Remapping the Mind : Landscapes and Cultural Relativism -- Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking. Engaging the Salon Public : Bernier's Particular History -- Nur Jahan -- Jahanara and Raushanara : Mughal Models -- The Zenana : "Plus indispensable qu'on ne saurait presque croire" -- "Une canne des Indes fort extraordinaire" -- Dryden's Aureng-Zebe : A Different Conversation -- Penser autrement : Fables, Philosophy, and

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