Author: Antoine Marie H. Boulard
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Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Tom Stammers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.

Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1690

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Charles G. S. Williams
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Jean-Baptiste Henri du Trousset de Valincour (1653-1730) was both government official and man of letters. In his governmental career, he occupied prominent posts in the household of le comte de Toulouse, son of Louis XIV and Admiral of France. As a man of letters he made his mark as the author of the first critical appraisal of Madame de Lafayette's masterpiece, La Princess de Cleves. He was a poet, literary critic, historian, and polemicist for the Church of France.

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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: British Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Author: Tom Stammers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478840
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.