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  1. Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal
    François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière, and enlightening conversations in seventeenth-century France
    Author: Beasley, Faith Evelyn
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; Introduction; 1 Worldly Encounters: Communities and Conversation; â#x80;#x9C;Un esprit extraordinaireâ#x80;#x9D;; Food for Conversation: Bernierâ#x80;#x99;s Travels;... more

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    Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; Introduction; 1 Worldly Encounters: Communities and Conversation; â#x80;#x9C;Un esprit extraordinaireâ#x80;#x9D;; Food for Conversation: Bernierâ#x80;#x99;s Travels; Conversing with/about Colbert; Remapping the Mind: Landscapes and Cultural Relativism; 2 Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking; Engaging the Salon Public: Bernierâ#x80;#x99;s Particular History; Nur Jahan; Jahanara and Raushanara: Mughal Models; The Zenana: â#x80;#x9C;Plus indispensable quâ#x80;#x99;on ne saurait presque croireâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;Une canne des Indes fort extraordinaireâ#x80;#x9D Drydenâ#x80;#x99;s Aureng-Zebe: A Different Conversation3 Penser autrement: Fables, Philosophy, and Diversity; Religious Diversity and French Thought; Inspiring Thought: Bernier and Diversity; La Fontaine: Deriving Wisdom from Diversity; Fontenelle: A Conversation between and of Different Worlds; 4 Indian Taste, A Taste for India; Importing Taste: Le goût féminin et la guerre des étoffes; Transforming Taste: Diamonds and Political Capital; Directing Taste: MoliÃr̈eâ#x80;#x99;s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme; Reflecting Grandeur: Mirroring India; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Colour plates follow page

    Challenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century ""orientalism,"" Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's ""Great Century.""

     
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