The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris

by Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun, Jocelyn Phelps (Translator)

This lively book examines the origins of intimacy and domestic life in early modern France. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the development of ideas such as sociability, comfort, and the home.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun is an engineer at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and has collaborated for several years on Pierre Chaunu's major studies of 17th- and 18th-century Paris. She is the co-author, along with Victor-Lucien Tapié and Jean-Paul Le Flem, of Baroque Altarpieces of Brittany (Puf, 1972).

Reviews

[YHC · Rating 4 out of 5]

由遺物清單中窺探17. 18世紀的巴黎人生活. 數據有點瑣碎但是不失為用證據來推敲過往的好方法. 也算是有趣的一本書. 廚房物品清單可見當時的巴黎人在貧富家庭中愛吃的東西.