Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France

by Faith E. Beasley and Faith E Beasley

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Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's "Great Century" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sabli re and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher Fran ois Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Bernier's travels and inscribed in his influential texts produced in collaboration...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1487502842

ISBN13:9781487502843

Release Date:March 2018

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France

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