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To make a figure in the world: Identity and material literacy in the 1770s coach consumption of British ambassador, Lord Grantham

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 386-407, July 2024.
Abstract Using archival research on the correspondence of diplomat Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, this article examines how Grantham used his material knowledge of carriage design to negotiate the often‐conflicting pushes and pulls on elite office‐holding men's identities and material cultures.
Ben Jackson
wiley   +1 more source

Héros malgré lui : le bureau de la signature du traité de Versailles

Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
This article examines the unusual history of a seemingly ordinary eighteenth-century writing desk that has been in the Château de Versailles collection since 1914.
Claire Bonnotte Khelil
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring museum sustainability within the framework of institutional theory: A dictionary‐based content analysis of French and British National Museums' annual reports

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 2260-2276, May 2024.
Abstract In the context of increasing attention on museum sustainability, this research adopts a dictionary‐based, content‐analysis approach to measure the degree of sustainability disclosed in European museum annual reports and similar documents. The analysis is carried out through the lens of institutional theory, assuming that the presence of formal
Mara Cerquetti, Domenico Sardanelli, Concetta Ferrara   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dans l’ombre de Girardon : sculpteurs champenois sur le chantier versaillais

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006
Key player in the Versailles initiative, François Girardon, from Troyes, was one of the closest artists to Louis XIV. The sculptor’s participation in the glorification of the monarch—idealized in Apollo in the Grotto of Tethys at the Château de ...
Alicia Adamczak
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La vie à la cour du Roi-Soleil – Splendeur, pouvoir et spectacle [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice
Sous le règne de Louis XIV, la monarchie française devient une véritable mise en scène du pouvoir. À Château de Versailles, tout – architecture, étiquette, cérémonies et fêtes – est organisé pour glorifier le roi et affirmer son autorité absolue.
Melinda BOROȘ
doaj  

Aspects de la vie quotidienne à la cour de Versailles à la fin du xviie siècle à travers deux ensembles céramiques exceptionnels issus des fouilles du Grand Commun

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006
The excavation of the courtyard of the Grand Commun of the Château de Versailles in 2006 and 2007 by INRAP, under the direction of Jean-Yves Dufour, revealed the vestiges of several buildings that preceded the building of the Grand Commun in 1682 ...
Fabienne Ravoire
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Louvre Museum - Paintings [PDF]

, 2018
The Louvre Museum is the largest of the world's art museums by its exhibition surface. These represent the Western art of the Middle Ages in 1848, those of the ancient civilizations that preceded and influenced it (Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and
Sfetcu, Nicolae
core  

Le zoo, lieu politique, XVIe-XXe siècles [PDF]

, 2003
Les zoos sont des lieux et des modes d'expression du pouvoir des élites politiques, sociales, savantes et ...
Baratay, Eric
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The Princesse de Monaco, Hubert Robert and the invention of the ‘Vieux château’ of Betz [PDF]

, 2017
From 1782 until 1789, the princesse de Monaco (1737-1813) and her lover the prince de Condé (1740-1818) created at Betz (Oise) one of the most costly and ambitious landscape gardens of pre-Revolutionary France. At the heart of Betz was the 'Vieux château'
Gabriel Wick
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La localité du centre. Paris-Rome-Versailles-Villiers-le-Bel : les lieux de deux curés de la région parisienne au xviie siècle

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2010
Les lieux du pouvoir comme lieux sociaux sont pour l’historien nécessairement des lieux écrits – même le château de Versailles a bien changé depuis le xviie siècle et ce qui reste de la vie de cour gît dans des écrits tels que ceux que nous examinons ...
Dinah Ribard, Nicolas Schapira
doaj   +1 more source