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The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris
This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home.

On the basis of extensive and original research, Pardailhé-Galabrun describes early modern Paris as a city of contrasts: between buildings constructed as rental properties with ordinary, cramped facades, and the townhouses of the nobility, with carriage entrances, standing on lots alongside spacious courtyards and gardens. She has produced a vivid picture of the texture and warmth of life in the domestic world of pre-Revolutionary Parisians.

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The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris
This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home.

On the basis of extensive and original research, Pardailhé-Galabrun describes early modern Paris as a city of contrasts: between buildings constructed as rental properties with ordinary, cramped facades, and the townhouses of the nobility, with carriage entrances, standing on lots alongside spacious courtyards and gardens. She has produced a vivid picture of the texture and warmth of life in the domestic world of pre-Revolutionary Parisians.

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

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

by Annik Pardailhe-Galabrun
The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris

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

by Annik Pardailhe-Galabrun

Overview

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

On the basis of extensive and original research, Pardailhé-Galabrun describes early modern Paris as a city of contrasts: between buildings constructed as rental properties with ordinary, cramped facades, and the townhouses of the nobility, with carriage entrances, standing on lots alongside spacious courtyards and gardens. She has produced a vivid picture of the texture and warmth of life in the domestic world of pre-Revolutionary Parisians.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780745606934
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 04/08/1992
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.29(w) x 9.32(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun worked closely at the CNRS with Professor François Crouzet and Professor Pierre Chaunu. Together with Victor-Lucien Tapie and Jean-Paul Le Flem, she wrote Retables Baroques de Bretagne (1970). She died in 1990.

Table of Contents

Preface by Pierre Chaunu.

Introduction.

1. Geographic Location of Households in Paris and its Suburbs.

2. A Sample of the Population in Paris.

3. The Parisian Home: From Vertical to Horizontal.

4. Daily Actions in the Privacy of the Home.

5. Elements of Convenience in the Home.

6. Home Decoration.

7. A Look at Spiritual and Cultural Life as seen through Household Objects.

Conclusion.

List of Scholars who contributed to the Preparation of this Work.

Suggested Reading.

Documents.

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