La Place Louis XV from the Old Regime to the Revolution

King and People in the Parisian Royal Square

Victoria Thompson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2025
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-83624-463-9 (ISBN)

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The Place Louis XV was the last royal square built in Paris. This book tells the story of its design, construction, use, and political symbolism, to argue that this royal square was a contested space, where the intended celebration of monarchical power was ridiculed, challenged, and eventually displaced by the emerging authority of the people of Paris. As initially imagined, the Place Louis XV was meant to be a monument to the love between king and people. During the long period of construction of the square, Louis XV was criticized for his personal, political, and financial decisions, and challenged by an emboldened Parlement. When inaugurated, the king’s statue was an ambiguous symbol that reflected uncertainty concerning the affective bond between king and people. During the French Revolution, the square became a symbol of royal despotism. Drawing on the work of architectural historians and theorists of space and place, the author takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the complex political meanings attributed to this urban landmark. The result is a study of a royal space that reveals how urban space contributed to the growing tension between the king and the people in an age of Enlightenment and Revolution.

Professor Victoria Thompson is Chair of the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is completing a book entitled King and Public in the Parisian Royal Square, 1748-89 that examines the relationship between the design, representation, and use of urban space and socio-political transformation.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: King and Public in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Chapter One: Majestic and Burlesque: The Parisian Royal Square Before 1748

Chapter Two: In the Heart of the City: Projects for the New Place Louis XV, 1748-9

Chapter Three: Money, Love, and the Emergence of a Concerned Citizenry

Chapter Four: A King in the Fields: Designing the Place Louis XV

Chapter Five: Constructing and Celebrating the Place Louis XV

Chapter Six: The Place Louis XV from Old Regime to the Revolution

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:08
Zusatzinfo	7 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-83624-463-0 / 1836244630
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-463-9 / 9781836244639
Zustand	Neuware