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Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal : François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France
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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 cultur...
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."
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- Creator
- Faith E. Beasley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781487516130, 1487516134, 9781487516123, 1487516126, 1487502842
- OCLC
- on1083624487, on1330583703
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in print.
- In English.
- 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