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RICHELIEU'S DESMARETS C

By Hall

RICHELIEU'S DESMARETS C

By Hall

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Jean Desmarets, later Sieur de Saint-Sorlin, was a late Renaissance `universal man': first Chancellor and founder-member of the Académie-française, last jester of the French royal court and star performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet, architect, inventor, and mystic. He was also the first man to publicize the notion of `a century of Louis XIV'. Hugh Gaston Hall's book examines that notion by looking afresh at Desmarets' vigorous career andrelating the `century of Louis XIV' to its origins in the reign of Louis XIII. It questions historical misconceptions about Cardinal Richelieu's cultural policies and demonstrates the importance for the Court ballet of his patronage. Giovanni Bernini's illusionist sets and lighting effects for the Grand'Salle,which later became Molière's theatre and the Opéra, are discussed here in English for the first time. Desmarets' many high-level court offices, his family connections, and works - ballets, plays, poems, and religious and polemical pieces - reveal new and important links with contemporary institutions and preoccupations. In particular Dr Hall considers the plays in the light of exemplary eloquence, and considers the intentions of the Académie-française, and the Quarrel of theImaginaires, in relation to royal policy and the Cartesian revolution.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
410
Release Date:
1990-07-01
Publication Date:
2014-01-15
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198151578
ISBN13:
9780198151579
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
742 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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