La Place Louis XV from the Old Regime to the Revolution
King and People in the Parisian Royal Square
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment; 2025:08;
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Product details:
- Publisher Voltaire Foundation
- Date of Publication 12 August 2025
- ISBN 9781836244639
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 Illustrations, color 695
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Long description:
The Place Louis XV was the last royal square built in Paris. This book tells the story of its design, construction, use, and political symbolism, to argue that this royal square was a contested space, where the intended celebration of monarchical power was ridiculed, challenged, and eventually displaced by the emerging authority of the people of Paris. As initially imagined, the Place Louis XV was meant to be a monument to the love between king and people. During the long period of construction of the square, Louis XV was criticized for his personal, political, and financial decisions, and challenged by an emboldened Parlement. When inaugurated, the king’s statue was an ambiguous symbol that reflected uncertainty concerning the affective bond between king and people. During the French Revolution, the square became a symbol of royal despotism. Drawing on the work of architectural historians and theorists of space and place, the author takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the complex political meanings attributed to this urban landmark. The result is a study of a royal space that reveals how urban space contributed to the growing tension between the king and the people in an age of Enlightenment and Revolution.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: King and Public in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Chapter One: Majestic and Burlesque: The Parisian Royal Square Before 1748
Chapter Two: In the Heart of the City: Projects for the New Place Louis XV, 1748-9
Chapter Three: Money, Love, and the Emergence of a Concerned Citizenry
Chapter Four: A King in the Fields: Designing the Place Louis XV
Chapter Five: Constructing and Celebrating the Place Louis XV
Chapter Six: The Place Louis XV from Old Regime to the Revolution
Conclusion
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