Versailles : a biography of a palace / Tony Spawforth.

Main entry:

Spawforth, Antony.

Title & Author:

Versailles : a biography of a palace / Tony Spawforth.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.

Description:

xii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.
Builders of the labyrinth -- "Rome in one palace" -- A gilded cage? -- "How right to insist on ceremony ..." -- Follow the King! -- "All the pleasures" -- Comforts, or lack of them -- Behind closed doors -- A garden with flowers -- "The royal zoo" -- After the deluge.

Summary:

The story of Versailles is one of high historical drama mixed with the high camp and glamour of the European courts, all in an iconic home for the French arts. Spawforth probes the conventional picture of the palace, and gives full weight to the darker side, as well as its changing place in France's national identity since 1789.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780312357856
0312357850
0312603460 (pbk.)
9780312603465 (pbk.)

Subject:

Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) History.
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Histoire.
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France) History.
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Versailles (slott) historia.
Monarchy France History.
Monarchie France Histoire.
Monarchy History. France.
Buildings.
Courts and courtiers.
Monarchy.
Hovliv historia Frankrike.
Versailles (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
France Court and courtiers History.
France.
France Versailles.
Frankrike historia före 1789 (ancien régime)
Versailles Schloss.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265446
Call No.: BIB 196905
Status: Available

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