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Out of public sight for over a hundred years, the Livre de
caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises is a remarkable work. This
collection of comic and satirical drawings was created by a
Parisian luxury embroiderer, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, at a
time of rigid press censorship to entertain a small group of family
and friends. For today's reader the Livreprovides not only a series
of richly imaginative and varied drawings, but also a fascinating
and intriguing commentary on pre-Revolutionary Paris. In this first
comprehensive study of the Livre de caricatures, which includes
over 190 illustrations, an international team of scholars
investigates the motivations and operations behind the making of
the book, and the many facets of Parisian life that it illuminates.
Embracing politics and religion, theatre, fashion and
connoisseurship, and the court of Versailles and the Parisian
streets, the scope of the Livre is immense. The work's unique
quality is evident in its humour - whimsical, fantastical,
challengingly allusive, but not without a sharp political edge when
targeting clerics, the court and Louis XV's mistress, Madame de
Pompadour. Known within the Saint-Aubin family as the Livre de
culs, the Livre delights in the transgression of social convention
and the keen deflation of vanity and pretence. Contributors explore
this irreverent image of eighteenth-century Paris in all its glory.
In today's world, the visual satire of the Livre de Caricatures
continues to resonate, instruct and entertain.
Based on extensive research, Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Emily
Richardson have collected prophetic and transformative narratives
of experience, shared directly by disabled people who have rarely
been enabled to speak in Christian books about disability. By
centering disabled Christians' own stories, this book calls for
churches to move from a care-based approach to disability, to one
that is focused on justice, equality and access to churches for
disabled Christians.
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