Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The book and the building; Change in the seventeenth-century French public sphere; The Royal Academy of Architecture; PART I The Academy and the public; 1 A network for debate; Germain Brice and critical spectatorship; The second generation at the Academy; Frémin and Cordemoy; Brice after Cordemoy; The public and the Academy at the death of Louis XIV; 2 The aestheticizing discourse of print; Architecture and the readership of the Mercure; An ""incomparable"" cathedral
3 Architecture and civic idealsNostalgia, public spirit, and affect; The collapse of the first academic project; Louis XV rules alone; PART II Architecture, politics, and public life; 4 The city as critical allegory; The rise of the Lenormand; The parlementaire view of the city: Bachaumont and the Louvre; The Fontaine de Grenelle and the weight of public opinion; How to read the city; 5 The debate on the Place Louis XV and the Louvre; To launch a cause célèbre; La Font de Saint-Yenne's L'Ombre du Grand Colbert; Debates and decisions after April 1749; Architecture and the public word
PART III The impact of public debate6 Marigny's program; Cochin and connoisseurship; Marigny's priorities; The Louvre restoration and the Grand Conseil; Uncovering Sainte-Geneviève; 7 A public for architecture; Architecture in the Année littéraire and the Journal œconomique; Retheorizing architecture for a new public; The limits of the public; 8 A new paradigm for publicity; Architects reassess publicity; The official counterattack of the 1760s; PART IV The crisis of architectural representation; 9 Sainte-Geneviève and the unraveling of a tradition; Sainte-Geneviève and the Middle Ages
A revised narrativeDesboeufs and Marigny; Patte versus Soufflot; 10 Politics and monuments under Louis XVI; Works on paper; Reformist burlesque; Corrosive criticism and critical burlesque; 11 Private interest and the rhetoric of public good; The Halle au Blé; The Théâtre-Français; The Théâtre-Italien: an arriviste returns to the Boulevard; 12 The disrepute of architecture; The accomplice of oppression; The rhetoric of severity; Anti-monumentality; Conclusion: the image of unity; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
