Research Catalog

Title

The Place Vendôme : architecture and social mobility in eighteenth-century Paris / Rochelle Ziskin.

Author

Ziskin, Rochelle, 1954-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"In the Place Vendome, Rochelle Ziskin explores the sociological foundations of domestic design in eighteenth-century France, the acknowledged leader of domestic architecture in this period. Focusing on the Place Vendome, which was developed by the financiers of Paris, she examines the representational strategies and dilemmas of French elites, which were crucial to the formation of a French mode of design. These strategies are illuminated through a study of the socially mobile households of financiers, with their evolving but ambiguous social status. Through analyses of social distinctions and ambitions, Ziskin explores the manner in which the dwellings of the Place Vendome embodied beliefs about the nature of society, the appropriate relations among social groups, as well as those between men and women, parents and children, and masters and domestics. This study also includes a wide range of illustrated material that is published here for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Architecture and society > France > Paris > History > 18th century
• Architecture et société > France > Paris > Histoire > 18e siècle
• Architecture and society
• Buildings
• Architektur
• Ausstattung
• Geschichte
• Sozialgeschichte
• Soziologie
• Wohnungsbau
• Soziale Mobilität
• Stedenbouw
• Pleinen
• Architecture and society > France > Paris > 18th century
• Architecture > Aspect social > France > Paris (France) > 18e siècle
• Place Vendôme (Paris, France)
• Paris (France) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Paris (France) > Constructions
• France > Paris
• France > Paris > Place Vendôme
• Frankreich
• Place Vendôme Paris
• Paris (France) > Place Vendôme
• Paris > Place Vendôme

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.

Contents

1. Louis XIV's Parisian place royale Reconceived -- Investors and Proprietors -- The "Lackey-Financier" -- The Ideal: The Noble Hotel -- Social Representation at the Place Vendome -- 2. Social Representation and Gendered Realms -- The Maison de La Vieuxville-Bourvalais (No. 13) -- The Maison Reich de Pennautier and the Hotel d'Evreux (No. 19) -- Gender and Planning at the Place Vendome -- 3. Typology at the Place Vendome -- Mansart's Unbuilt Projects (Nos. 9 to 11) and the Maison Le Bas de Montargis (No. 7) -- Other Dwellings in the pans coupes (Nos. 8 and 22) -- The L-Shaped Type -- The Smaller Houses -- 4. The Regency and Its Aftermath -- The Chambre de Justice, 1716-1717 -- A Satellite of the Palais Royal -- 5. "Not at all Monsieur Jourdain ..." -- The Maison Crozat in the 1720s -- Crozat's Maison -- 6. Mobility, Adaptation, and Reconstruction -- The Maison Crozat de Tugny During the 1740s -- The Hotel de Thiers (No. 19) -- 7. The Caisse, Collecting, and the Boudoir: The Place Vendome at the End of the Old Regime -- Corporate Distinctions and the Rise of Tax Farmers -- Tableaux and Bureaux: Blondel de Gagny (No. 15) -- The Cabinet and Boudoir: the Maison Dange (No. 9) -- "Nature" at the Maison Baudard de Sainte-James (No. 12) -- The Marquet -- Bankers in Paris.

ISBN

• 0521592593
• 9780521592598

LCCN

98025880

OCLC

• ocm39216045
• 39216045
• SCSB-541258

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library