17th & 18th centuries

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  Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Tome 49

  Librairie Droz | Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau n° 49

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  Mémoires de Benjamin Aubery du Maurier, ambassadeur protestant de Louis XIII (1566-1636)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Benjamin Aubery served Louis XIII, first in financial administration, then as diplomat, notably as ambassador to the United Netherlands from 1613 to 1624. Aubery's memoirs demonstrate a slow secularization of international relations, ...

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  Corona Regia

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Corona Regia (1615), published under false author's and printer's names, has been infamously known as a porno-political tract, a scandalous satire written against King James I, and the most scathing satire ever written against princes...

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  A la baïonnette ou au scalpel

  Comment l'horreur s'écrit

  Université de Gand | Romanica Gandensia

  Horror has long fascinated readers and spectators, from visions of hell in Middle Ages to apocalyptic reflections on modern times. This collection of articles sheds light on the representation of horror, and the pleasure it can provide readers.

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  Philippe NÉRICAULT DESTOUCHES

  Le Philosophe marié ou le Mari honteux de l'être

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Staged for the first time on the 15th of February, 1727, by the Comédie Française, Philippe Néricault Destouches' comedy, Le Philosophe marié, ou Le Mari honteux de l’être, became one of the greatest successes of the first half of the 18th century...

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  Michel ANTOINE

  Le Conseil du roi sous le règne de Louis XV

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  The royal councils were an essential part of the King's government, an extension of his political being. Michel Antoine examines the complex institutions that composed the different royal councils under the Ancien Régime, studying the reach ...

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  Emmanuelle CHAPRON

  "Ad utilità pubblica"

  Politique des bibliothèques et pratiques du livre à Florence au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  The landscape of Florentine libraries changed profoundly between the reign of the Medicis and the archdukes of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The opening of two public libraries, creation of specialized collections, dispersion of ecclesiastical collections and...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXVII, Deuxième supplément : 1716-1789

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 27

  There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

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  Mickaël SZANTO

  Le Dessin ou la couleur ? Une exposition de peinture sous le règne de Louis XIV

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  A booklet itemising 171 paintings and several sculptures serves as a reminder of a forgotten but important artistic event under Louis XIV: the sumptuous public exhibition organized in Paris in the autumn of 1683. The very first exhibition of its kind...

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  Patricia GILLET

  Etienne Baluze et l’histoire du Limousin : desseins et pratiques d’un érudit du XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  Étienne Baluze is known to posterity as Colbert’s librarian, as a professor of canon law, and as an editor of ecclesiastical authors. Less well-known is his contribution to the history of the Limousin. This local deep-rootedness is visible between the...