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Pleasure and privilege, life in France, Naples, and America, 1770-1790, Olivier Bernier ; foreword by Louis Auchincloss

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Bibliography: p. [277]-280

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Pleasure and privilege

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Olivier Bernier ; foreword by Louis Auchincloss

life in France, Naples, and America, 1770-1790

Describes eighteenth-century life in Paris, Versailles, Naples, and America in terms of fashion, art, education, politics, science, and commerce

Part I: Paris and Versailles -- Paris -- The court: Another country -- Palace, house and home -- The establishment: Aristocracy, Parlement and church -- The rule of fashion -- The details of life -- The arts: Painting, sculpture, architecture -- The arts: Literature and the theater -- Children and education -- Politics and the salons -- Science and commerce -- Part II: Naples -- A tourist heaver -- Part III: America -- Rousseau's America -- The cities: Civilization in the wilderness -- Living through the war -- Of laws and men: Crisis and continuity