Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal : François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière, and enlightening conversations in seventeenth-century France / Faith E. Beasley.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487516123 1487516126 9781487516130 1487516134 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2018) |