Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France |
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| Author:
| Beasley, Faith E. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4875-0284-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
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Book Description:
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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."
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."