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Versailles meets the Taj Mahal : François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière, and enlightening conversations in seventeenth-century France / Faith E. Beasley.

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"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" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and...

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Main Author: Beasley, Faith Evelyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Bernier, François, > 1620-1688.
La Sablière, Marguerite de, > 1640?-1693.
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Orientalism > France > History > 17th century.
Salons > France > History > 17th century.
Enlightenment > France.
France > Intellectual life > 17th century.
India > Civilization > Influence.
France > Civilization > Indic influences.
Civilization > Indic influences.
Civilization > Influence.
Enlightenment.
French literature.
Intellectual life.
Orientalism.
Salons.
France.
India.
18.25 French literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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