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The Story of an Architect King - Stanislas Leszczynski in Lorraine 1737-1766 (Paperback)
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The Story of an Architect King - Stanislas Leszczynski in Lorraine 1737-1766 (Paperback)
Series: Cultural History & Literary Imagination, 6
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In this book the author explores the representational strategies of
the modern period and their relation to political life through the
story of Stanislas Leszczynski, architect king and roi bienfaisant,
'a king that does good'. The ingredients of his story are
compelling. They include: an exiled king (who makes a cameo
appearance in Voltaire's Candide and corresponds with Rousseau); a
collection of writings that include aphorisms, political treatises,
and a utopian novel; gardens that include a grotto of eighty-six
life-size automata and an experimental village of courtiers; and
architecture and landscapes that traverse the contested boundaries
of central Europe, imaginary constructions of the orient, and the
borderlines between fact and fiction. These come together to make a
distinctive account of the transitional period in
eighteenth-century culture. Stanislas' architectural and literary
works were rooted in an acceptance of the uncertainty of the world
more characteristic of the story. His 'hope of a better age'
emerges as an endeavour - through the writing and the architecture
- to find one's own meaning in history as well as a model for the
good life. His story suggests a way of exploring what this struggle
still entails today.
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