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Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda - the Fermiers generaux edition of La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers of 1762 (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda - the Fermiers generaux edition of La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers of 1762 (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2006:11
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La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers was probably the most
famous illustrated book to have appeared in France during the
eighteenth century. The celebrated 1762 edition, published by Louis
XV's detested tax-gatherers, the Compagnie des Fermiers generaux,
held among its claims to supremacy its magnificent copperplate
illustrations, designed by Charles Eisen. In this highly
illustrated book, David Adams first sets out a publishing history
of the edition, using historical, bibliographical and cultural
evidence, and next provides a detailed study of the plates as a
whole. In so doing, he gives his interpretation of the values and
attitudes of the Compagnie, the members of which took great care to
ensure that the plates reflected their view of contemporary
society. Finally, he gives a synoptic view of the illustrations,
and situates the work in the wider context of contemporary French
illustrated books. This pioneering study of the relationship
between text and image in eighteenth-century France shows that the
illustrations the Fermiers generaux commissioned for this literary
classic were intended to promote their own patrician values, and to
assert their freedom of action, turning literature into propaganda
with consequences they did not foresee.
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