Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris

Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK and Anthony Turner, Paris, France Robert Fox, Anthony Turner, Fabienne Le Bars, Michele Bimbenet-Privat, Giles Barber, Carolyn Sargentson, Lesley Miller, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Daniel Roche, Michael Sonenscher, Joan Thirsk, Francois Crouzet, Gillian Lewis.

• Contents: Introduction; Robert Fox and Anthony Turner; Les relieurs et doreurs de Paris au XVIe siècle, Fabienne Le Bars; L’influence flamande sur l’orfèvrerie parisienne au XVIe siècle, Michèle Bimbenet-Privat; The Parisian fine-binding trade in the last century of the Ancien Régime, Giles Barber; Mathematical instrument-making in early modern Paris, Anthony Turner; The manufacture and marketing of luxury goods: the marchands-merciersof late 17th- and 18th-century Paris, Carolyn Sargentson; Paris-Lyon-Paris: dialogue in the design and distribution of luxury silks in the 18th century, Lesley Miller; Noël Gérard (1685-1736) et le Magasin Général à l’Hôtel Jabach, Jean-Dominique Augarde; La luxe par excellence: les fêtes royales de Louis XIV à Versailles de mai 1664, Jean-Jacques Gautier; Between a moral economy and a consumer economy: clothes and their function in the 17th and 18th centuries, Daniel Roche; Fashion’s empire: trade and power in early 18th century France, Michael Sonenscher; Luxury trades and consumerism, Joan Thirsk; Some remarks on the métiers d’art, François Crouzet; Producers, suppliers and consumers: some reflections on the luxury trades in Paris, c.1500-c.1800, Gillian Lewis; Index.

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