Title Funerary arts and tomb cult : living with the dead in France, 1750-1870 / Suzanne Glover Lindsay

Published Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub., [2012]

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Description xxi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Reforming funerary cult in France 1750-1870 -- Eighteenth-century France: rethinking sculpture and the body -- The Bonchamps project: reinventing the effigy tomb -- Louis-Philippe's tombs: burying a modern royal family -- The poetics of the exhumed corpse I: a tomb for Napoléon -- The poetics of the exhumed corpse II: the Cavaignac tomb Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sepulchral monuments -- France -- History. Burial -- France -- History. SUBJECT France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005863 France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051505 LC no. 2011050164 ISBN 9781409422617 (hbk.) 1409422615 (hbk.)

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