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Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV (Hardcover)
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Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV (Hardcover)
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Jean Desmarets, later Sieur de Saint-Sorlin, was a late Renaissance
`universal man': first Chancellor and founder-member of the
Academie-francaise, last jester of the French royal court and star
performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet, architect,
inventor, and mystic. He was also the first man to publicize the
notion of `a century of Louis XIV'. Hugh Gaston Hall's book
examines that notion by looking afresh at Desmarets' vigorous
career and relating the `century of Louis XIV' to its origins in
the reign of Louis XIII. It questions historical misconceptions
about Cardinal Richelieu's cultural policies and demonstrates the
importance for the Court ballet of his patronage. Giovanni
Bernini's illusionist sets and lighting effects for the
Grand'Salle, which later became Moliere's theatre and the Opera,
are discussed here in English for the first time. Desmarets' many
high-level court offices, his family connections, and works -
ballets, plays, poems, and religious and polemical pieces - reveal
new and important links with contemporary institutions and
preoccupations. In particular Dr Hall considers the plays in the
light of exemplary eloquence, and considers the intentions of the
Academie-francaise, and the Quarrel of the Imaginaires, in relation
to royal policy and the Cartesian revolution.
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