Wick, Gabriel: Le Petit Salon. The journey of an 18th century room from Paris to Vermont. Exhibition: Middlebury (VT), Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2025. 191 pages, illustrated. Paperback. 27 x 21cms. A catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, on the preserved 18th century Parisian salon by royal architect Pierre-Adrien Paris. Exploring the ancient roman inspiration behind the room's decor, the background of the owner of the house, Louis-Marie-Guy d'Aumont de Rochebaron the 6th Duke of Aumont, the fate of the Hotel de Crillon after the French Revolution, the American collection of period European interior decoration in the 20th century, and the salon's transferral to Le Chateau at Middlebury College.
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, on the preserved 18th century Parisian salon by royal architect Pierre-Adrien Paris. Exploring the ancient roman inspiration behind the room's decor, the background of the owner of the house, Louis-Marie-Guy d'Aumont de Rochebaron the 6th Duke of Aumont, the fate of the Hotel de Crillon after the French Revolution, the American collection of period European interior decoration in the 20th century, and the salon's transferral to Le Chateau at Middlebury College
2025, in-4 pleine toile, jaquette (381 pages). Entièrement illustré.
Middlebury, 2025 in-8 broché (192 pages).
Les boiseries de l'Hôtel de Crillon-Polignac, (place de la Concorde). NEUF
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, 384 Pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:263 col., Language(s):English, *new. ISBN 9781915487513.
France in the mid-1760s witnessed what the aphorist and garden lover the prince de Ligne hailed as La r volution du go t the revolution of taste. A small number of dissident and philosophically minded aristocrats remade their gardens in the bizarre and eccentric manner of the English. The informality and apparent naturalism of these jardins anglais stood in marked contrast to the symmetry, regularity, and proudly assumed artifice of the jardins la fran aise, the century-old legacy of Andr Le N tre and his master Louis XIV. The English-inflected aesthetic was all the more controversial because France had just suffered humiliating defeat at the hands of England in the Seven Years? War. Landscape gardens formed part of a broader taste for English fashions, pastimes, and mindsets that was derisively termed Anglomania by traditionalists. Louis XVI opined to his brother-in-law Joseph II that anglomanie was the most pernicious threat to the well-being of France. What did it mean for the kingdom?s great dynasts to reframe their identities in the image of the nation?s rival? Were these aesthetic developments simply a question of fashion or did they portend a deeper instability and discontentment in the upper echelons of the Bourbon monarchy? How did new English-inflected settings allow aristocrats and the people to interact differently? Gardens in Revolution argues that royal, aristocratic and public gardens were catalysts in early modern political culture: settings that allowed dynasts to redefine their identities, transform their interactions with the press and the people, and in so doing contest the limited influence and autonomy afforded them within the Bourbon state. Covering the three decades from the end of the Seven Years? War to the abolition of the monarchy, it charts how estates and gardens like Marie-Antoinette?s Petit-Trianon and Saint-Cloud, the comte d?Artois? Bagatelle, or the duc d?Orl ans? Monceau and Le Raincy served as instruments of communication, self-expression and self-representation. It argues that English-inflected aesthetics were a critical means for grandees to manifest their ?affabilite ,? or openness to the public, and their dissatisfaction with the current political order. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: In the Gardens of the Princes Patriotes: The princes de Conti and Cond and the Duc d?Orl ans Chapter 2: Triumph through Disgrace: The Duc de Choiseul at Chanteloup Chapter 3: R volte l?Anglaise: The Duc de Chartres at Monceau and Saint-Leu Chapter 4: A Revolution at Court: Marie-Antoinette, the Petit-Trianon and the Reinvention of the Royal Garden Chapter 5: Prince of the Public Sphere: The Comte d?Artois?s Landscapes Chapter 6: The Crown?s New Estates: Rambouillet and Saint-Cloud Chapter 7: A Modern Domain for a Republican Prince: Orl ans and Le Raincy Conclusion: The King?s Last Garden: Tuileries Bibliography
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 384 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:263 col. Language:English. *new. ISBN 9781915487513.
Summary France in the mid-1760s witnessed what the aphorist and garden lover the prince de Ligne hailed as ?La r volution du go t? ? the revolution of taste. A small number of dissident and philosophically minded aristocrats remade their gardens in the bizarre and eccentric manner of the English. The informality and apparent naturalism of these jardins anglais stood in marked contrast to the symmetry, regularity, and proudly assumed artifice of the jardins la fran aise, the century-old legacy of Andr Le N tre and his master Louis XIV. The English-inflected aesthetic was all the more controversial because France had just suffered humiliating defeat at the hands of England in the Seven Years? War. Landscape gardens formed part of a broader taste for English fashions, pastimes, and mindsets that was derisively termed Anglomania by traditionalists. Louis XVI opined to his brother-in-law Joseph II that anglomanie was the most pernicious threat to the well-being of France. What did it mean for the kingdom?s great dynasts to reframe their identities in the image of the nation?s rival? Were these aesthetic developments simply a question of fashion or did they portend a deeper instability and discontentment in the upper echelons of the Bourbon monarchy? How did new English-inflected settings allow aristocrats and the people to interact differently? Gardens in Revolution argues that royal, aristocratic and public gardens were catalysts in early modern political culture: settings that allowed dynasts to redefine their identities, transform their interactions with the press and the people, and in so doing contest the limited influence and autonomy afforded them within the Bourbon state. Covering the three decades from the end of the Seven Years? War to the abolition of the monarchy, it charts how estates and gardens like Marie-Antoinette?s Petit-Trianon and Saint-Cloud, the comte d?Artois? Bagatelle, or the duc d?Orl ans? Monceau and Le Raincy served as instruments of communication, self-expression and self-representation. It argues that English-inflected aesthetics were a critical means for grandees to manifest their ?affabilite ,? or openness to the public, and their dissatisfaction with the current political order. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: In the Gardens of the Princes Patriotes: The princes de Conti and Cond and the Duc d?Orl ans Chapter 2: Triumph through Disgrace: The Duc de Choiseul at Chanteloup Chapter 3: R volte l?Anglaise: The Duc de Chartres at Monceau and Saint-Leu Chapter 4: A Revolution at Court: Marie-Antoinette, the Petit-Trianon and the Reinvention of the Royal Garden Chapter 5: Prince of the Public Sphere: The Comte d?Artois?s Landscapes Chapter 6: The Crown?s New Estates: Rambouillet and Saint-Cloud Chapter 7: A Modern Domain for a Republican Prince: Orl ans and Le Raincy Conclusion: The King?s Last Garden: Tuileries Bibliography