โ Bethany-Kris
๐ Fiction
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2019
๐ English
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Pleasure and Privilege
โ Scribed by Olivier Bernier
- Publisher
- New Word City, Inc.
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 338 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1640191992
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โฆ Synopsis
"Only those who lived before the Revolution know how sweet life can be," Talleyrand wrote, many years before the event. Those who dip into Olivier Bernier's lively pages will discover just how sweet, how deep the pleasure, how precious the privilege. For he has populated this book with real people and offers real facts about them and their societies, all based on personal letters, memoirs, diaries, and biographies. The result is fascinating history, filled with irony and contradiction.
French culture during the 1770s and 1780s bloomed as it never had before (or never has since), producing the most etiquette-ridden, frivolous, glittering, and useless aristocracy since Louis XVI carried the court off to Versailles a hundred years earlier. Yet this spendthrift culture also produced the beginnings of just about everything "modern" we take for granted - fast communications, fast foods, and mass production, to name only a few.
It was a remarkable era by any standards, giving rise...
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