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Author Rabinovitch, Oded, author

Title The Perraults : a family of letters in early modern France / Oded Rabinovitch
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018

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Contents Representing a family of letters : images of authorship (1650-1750) -- Finance and mobility : Pierre ascendant (1600-1660) -- The Perraults in the countryside : Viry and literary sociability (1650-1680) -- Failure in finance and the rise of Charles Perrault (1660-1680) -- The Perraults and Versailles : mediating grandeur (1660-1700) -- Claude Perrault and the mechanics of animals : family and scientific institutions (1660-1690) -- Epilogue (1690-1730)
Summary "This book shows how the family strategy of the Perraults interacted with their literary and scientific projects, leading to a revision of our image of the major cultural institutions of the seventeenth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Perreault family.
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.
Perrault, P. (Pierre), 1611-1680.
SUBJECT Perrault, P. (Pierre), 1611-1680
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703
Perreault family
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 fast
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688 fast
Perrault, P. (Pierre), 1611-1680 fast
Perreault family fast
Subject Families -- France -- History -- 17th century
Social networks -- France -- History -- 17th century
REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
Civilization
Families
Intellectual life
Social networks
SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051439
France -- Civilization -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051189
Subject France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018020013
ISBN 9781501730085
1501730088
9781501730092
1501730096
150172942X
9781501729423