| Description |
1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover13; -- Contents13; -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION13; -- CHAPTER ONE The Observer and His Diary -- CHAPTER TWO The City -- CHAPTER THREE Justice in the Streets -- CHAPTER FOUR Public Devotions -- CHAPTER FIVE Political Festivities -- CONCLUSION Thinking about the Ceremonial City13; -- INDEX |
| Summary |
From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and misery, Robert Schneider explores how Toulouse's civic and community life was represented in the stagings of various ceremonies. His inquiry is based on the unpublished diaries of Pierre Barthès, a Latin tutor who was both a devout Catholic and a monarchist, and who recorded forty years of public activity in ways that reflected the mounting social |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Barthès, Pierre, 1704-1781. Heures perdues
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Barthes, Pierre, 1704-. Heures perdues
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Heures perdues (Barthès, Pierre) fast |
| Subject |
Rites and ceremonies -- France -- Toulouse -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Rites and ceremonies
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Toulouse (France) -- History
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France -- Toulouse
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400821419 |
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140082141X |
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